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dweller en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdwɛlə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈdwɛlɚ/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der. Proto-Germanic *dwalaz Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan Old English dwellan ▲ Old Norse dveljainflu. Middle English dwellen Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English dweller English dweller From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.

Meanings

1. An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
   • As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted. 1963, Colin Clark, Australian Hopes and Fears, page 75:
   • [T]he craggineſſe and ſteepineſſe of places up and dovvn is a great advantage to the dvvellers, and makes them inacceſſible, for they ſerve as Fortreſſes erected by Nature her ſelfe, to protect them from all incurſions: […] 1642, James Howell, “Section X”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, pages 132–133:
   • The new couple are apartment dwellers.
   • To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners. 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315:

Forms

Deriveds

slum dweller · urban dweller · bottom dweller · fringe dweller · slumdweller · valley dweller · night dweller · outdweller · shackdweller · mirror dweller · bydweller · town-dweller · basement dweller · city dweller · country dweller · towndweller · home-dweller · indweller · cellar dweller · cave dweller · town dweller · basement-dweller · citydweller

Relateds

dwell

Synonyms

denizen · resident · inhabitant · dweller

Translations (2)

eo loĝanto (inhabitant) · es morador (inhabitant)