inhabitant
noun /ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/
Word Family
- inhabit verb
- habitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabitable adjective (≠ uninhabitable)
- inhabited adjective (≠ uninhabited)
- inhabitant noun
- habitation noun
- a person or an animal that lives in a particular place
（某地的）居民，栖息动物 - the oldest inhabitant of the village
这个村最老的居民 - It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants.
这是一个有约1万名居民的城镇。
- 77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside.
那时 77% 的居民生活在乡村。 - He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant.
他是布里克瑟姆最早的居民。 - London has over seven million inhabitants.
伦敦有700 多万居民。 - São Paulo has nearly 20 million inhabitants.
圣保罗市有近 2,000 万居民。 - The island's earliest inhabitants came from India.
岛上最早的居民来自印度。 - It eats mice, lizards and other small inhabitants of the forest floor.
它吃老鼠、蜥蜴和森林地面的其他小居民。 - the inhabitants of the rainforest/tundra/remote islands
热带雨林／苔原／偏远岛屿的居民
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- local
- early
- first
- …
- have
- live
- of…inhabitant
- with…inhabitant
词源late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’. - the oldest inhabitant of the village