habitant
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- a person who inhabits a particular placeSynonyms: inhabitantdwellerdenizenindwellerType of actor, doerKinds American, resident, Northerner, villager, European, Occidental, westerner, Nazarene, Asian, Austronesian +19 more
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Hab′it·ant (hăb′ĭt-ant), noun
Origin: F. habitant. See Habit, transitive verb
1. An inhabitant; a dweller. John Milton Alexander Pope
2. An inhabitant or resident; — a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; — usually in the plural.
The habitants or cultivators of the soil.— Francis, Jr. Parkman
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54