inhabitant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone or thing who lives in a place.

   I believed it in the same way one of you might believe there are inhabitants in the planet Mars. I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.

2. 2
   noun

   A possible value for a type.

   One way to observe this connection with mathematics is by mapping each type to its cardinality, a count of the inhabitants of that type.

3. 3
   noun

   a person who inhabits a particular place

4. 4
   adj

   resident

Etymology

From Middle English inhabitantes (n. plural) and inhabitaunt (adj.), from Old French inhabitant, from Latin inhabitāns, present participle of inhabitō (“to inhabit”), from in- (“in”) + habitō (“to dwell”) (frequentative of habeō (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghabh- (“to seize, take, hold, have”). By surface analysis, inhabit + -ant.