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357 words match “INHABITANT”

GALILEAN n.
A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.
GALLEGAN; GALLEGO n.
A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.
GAUCHO n.
On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
GAUL n.
A native or inhabitant of Gaul.
GENEVAN n.
A native or inhabitant of Geneva.
GENEVESE a.
A native or inhabitant of Geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of Geneva; people of Geneva.
GENOESE a.
A native or inhabitant of Genoa; collectively, the people of Genoa.
GEOGRAPHY n.
The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.
GOITROUS a.
of the nature of goiter or bronchocele. Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.
GOTHAMITE n.
An inhabitant of New York city. [Jocular] Irving.
GRAZIER n.
One who pastures cattle, and rears them for market. The inhabitants be rather . . . graziers than plowmen. Stow.
GRECIAN n.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
GRISONS n.
Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. (b) sing.
GUACHO n.
One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.
HABITANT n. 2 definitions
An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope.
HABITATOR n.
A dweller; an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
HABITUATE v.
To settle as an inhabitant. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
HAEMATOZOON; HAEMATOZOOEN n.
The trematode, Bilharzia hæmatobia, which infests the inhabitants of Egypt and other parts of Africa, often causing death.
HANOVERIAN n.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Hanover; one of the House of Hanover.
HAVANESE a.
A native or inhabitant, or the people, of Havana.
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