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{
"term": "inhabitant",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a person or an animal that lives in a particular place",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the oldest inhabitant of the village"
},
{
"text": "It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants."
},
{
"text": "77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside."
},
{
"text": "He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant."
},
{
"text": "London has just under ten million inhabitants."
},
{
"text": "São Paulo has nearly 23 million inhabitants."
},
{
"text": "The island's earliest inhabitants came from India."
},
{
"text": "It eats mice, lizards and other small inhabitants of the forest floor."
},
{
"text": "the inhabitants of the rainforest/tundra/remote islands"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["local", "early", "first"],
"verb + inhabitant": ["have"],
"inhabitant + verb": ["live"],
"preposition": ["of…inhabitant", "with…inhabitant"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/",
"audio": "in/inhabitant/inhabitant__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/",
"audio": "in/inhabitant/inhabitant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’."
}