Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there.
synonyms: occupant, resident.
Roget 188:
inhabitant;
resident,
residentiary†;
dweller,
indweller†;
addressee;
occupier,
occupant;
householder,
lodger,
inmate,
tenant,
incumbent,
sojourner,
locum tenens,
commorant†;
settler,
squatter,
backwoodsman,
colonist;
islander;
denizen,
citizen;
burgher,
oppidan†,
cockney,
cit,
townsman,
burgess;
villager;
cottager,
cottier†,
cotter;
compatriot;
backsettler†,
boarder;
hotel keeper,
innkeeper;
habitant;
paying guest;
planter.
native,
indigene,
aborigines,
autochthones†;
Englishman,
John Bull;
newcomer
etc.
(stranger)
57.
aboriginal,
American†,
Caledonian,
Cambrian,
Canadian,
Canuck [Slang],
downeaster [U.S.],
Scot,
Scotchman,
Hibernian,
Irishman,
Welshman,
Uncle Sam,
Yankee,
Brother Jonathan.
garrison,
crew;
population;
people
etc.
(mankind)
372;
colony,
settlement;
household;
mir†.
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Roget 779:
possessor,
holder;
occupant,
occupier;
tenant;
person in possession,
man in possession
etc.
777;
renter,
lodger,
lessee,
underlessee†;
zemindar†,
ryot†;
tenant on sufferance,
tenant at will,
tenant from year to year,
tenant for years,
tenant for life.
owner;
proprietor,
proprietress,
proprietary;
impropriator†,
master,
mistress,
lord.
land holder,
land owner,
landlord,
land lady,
slumlord;
lord of the manor,
lord paramount;
heritor,
laird,
vavasour†,
landed gentry,
mesne lord†;
planter.
cestui-que-trust [Fr.],
beneficiary,
mortgagor.
grantee,
feoffee†,
releasee [Law],
relessee†,
devisee;
legatee,
legatary†.
trustee;
holder of the legal estate
&c.;
mortgagee.
right owner,
rightful owner.
[Future possessor]
heir presumptive,
heir apparent;
heiress;
inheritor,
inheritress,
inheritrix;
reversioner†,
remainderman†.
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Dutch: inzittende, bewoner, bezetter, ingezetene, inwoner
Polish: mieszkaniec