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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dweller
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a city dweller (=someone who lives in a city)
▪ In the summer, city dwellers escape to the sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
rural
▪ The displacement of large numbers of rural dwellers to urban areas has increased overcrowding in urban schools.
▪ But if gender factors continue to be ignored, the majority of rural dwellers may find themselves little better off.
urban
▪ Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller.
▪ What the farmer gets is what the urban dweller pays minus transportation and distribution costs.
▪ The power that small hill farmers and poorer urban dwellers have in the state apparatus and in society at large is negligible.
▪ The real customers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development have not been poor urban dwellers, but real estate developers.
▪ Indeed, Cairenes are among the most resourceful of urban dwellers.
▪ Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers, particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.
▪ Dogtags were distributed among urban dwellers to make identification of the dead easier in the aftermath of what seemed inevitable.
▪ As federal and state support for the cities diminishes, poor urban dwellers will become even more destitute and marginalized.
■ NOUN
cave
▪ Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection.
city
▪ But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
▪ Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.
▪ Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers.
▪ Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers, most of them black or Hispanic.
▪ This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller.
▪ Hospital workers once alert for the sound became inured to it, like city dwellers to the sound of sirens.
▪ It is the dilemma of city dwellers, of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
▪ Police stood at highways and railroad stations to halt the exodus of thousands of city dwellers.
forest
▪ But in some counties the forest dwellers had not waited for these instructions.
slum
▪ Answers to these questions have important implications for slum dwellers, whose only local source of medical care may be private doctors.
▪ Half the populations of Delhi, Nairobi, and Manila are slum dwellers.
town
▪ Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.
▪ As was to be expected, town dwellers were better informed than rural people.
▪ Nobles were urban, but outside the areas of disseminated settlement the peasants and farmers were likewise town dwellers.
▪ Unlike many town dwellers, farmers can at least eat well.
▪ To a town dweller the silence is eerie - so this is how the wilderness felt to the early explorers and settlers.
▪ It is suited to town dwellers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller.
▪ Census takers historically have undercounted urban dwellers, particularly blacks and ethnic minorities, they argued.
▪ Furthermore, the causes of fuelwood scarcity must seem remote and diffuse to the average urban dweller.
▪ It's just hard for your Earth dwellers to conjure these all out of a hat in the midst of frustration.
▪ Similarly, an amendment carried in November 1917 did much to nullify the reduction of plural voting rights for town dwellers.
▪ Slum dwellers would filter through into better stock, or be rehoused by local authorities in new estates.
▪ Urban dwellers might find that the bright city lights will wash out the faintly glowing comet tail.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dweller

Dweller \Dwell"er\, n. An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. ``Dwellers at Jerusalem.''
--Acts i. 19.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dweller

late 14c., agent noun from dwell (v.).

Wiktionary
dweller

n. An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.

WordNet
dweller

n. a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: inhabitant, denizen, indweller]

Wikipedia
Dweller

Dweller may refer to:

  • Dweller (film), a 2000 film by independent film icons the Polonia brothers
  • Dweller (Banks), a fictional species featured in Iain M. Banks' novel The Algebraist
  • Dweller (novel), a 2010 horror novel by Jeff Strand
  • "Dweller", a song by Priestess from certain editions of the album Prior to the Fire
Dweller (Banks)

Dwellers are a fictional species featured in The Algebraist, a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks.

As described in the novel, Dwellers are extremely long-lived inhabitants of gas giant planets (like Jupiter, although that particular planet is described in the book as not having enough water for them).

Dweller (film)

Dweller is a 2002 low budget horror film by the Polonia Brothers. It was released in 2004 on the Brentwood 4-pack Sleazy Slashers, which also included the Polonias' Night Thirst.

The film concerns three ruthless bank robbers, played by John Polonia, Mark Polonia and Jon McBride (' Cannibal Campout', ' Woodchipper Massacre'), who camp out in an area where an alien spacecraft has landed, with low budget carnage ensuing.

Dweller (novel)

Dweller is a 2010 horror novel by Jeff Strand. The novel was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 2010. A limited edition hardcover version of the book was released by Dark Regions Press in July 2010, and a paperback version was released by Leisure Books in April 2010.

Usage examples of "dweller".

Therefore was it near to the heart of the holy prelate to solemnize this solemn day, which the Lord had appointed a day of joyfulness to the dwellers on earth and the dwellers in heaven, on the fair and spacious plain called Breagh, and there, by evangelizing the kingdom of God, and baptizing the people of his conversion, to gather together the elect race unto Christ.

Legion General Bill Booly followed the corridor that circled the outer edge of the wheel-shaped space station, he found himself rubbing shoulders with all manner of fellow beings, including brightly feathered Prithians, hulking Hudathans, work-worn androids, exoskeleton-clad Dwellers, cybernetic humans, and more.

Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.

Part of an Ubiquitous clade, found wherever Dwellers were, they harvested water condensation out of Dwellerine gas-giant atmospheres, using their dangling, thick and relatively solid roots to exploit the temperature difference between the various atmospheric layers.

Great Abyss, to be distributed impartially amongst the Dholes, Gugs, ghasts and other dwellers in darkness whose modes of nourishment are not painless to their chosen victims.

It was not by itself a state of disgrace - it was often compared to a person becoming a monk or a nun - though if it had been imposed on rather than chosen by a Dweller it was certainly a sign that they might later become an Outcast, and physically ejected from their home planet, a sanction which, given the relaxed attitude Dwellers displayed to both interstellar travel times and spaceship-construction quality control, was effectively a sentence of somewhere between several thousand years solitary confinement, and death.

It means a groundhog, an earthcrawler, a dirt dweller, one who never goes into space, not of our tribe, not human, a goy, an auslander, a savage, beneath contempt.

In this manner the Dweller of the Deep, whom the Noldor name Ulmo, Lord of Waters, showed himself to Tuor son of Huor of the House of Hador beneath Vinyamar.

Corenice thereafter spoke directly to Jaun and interpreted between the others and the mountain dwellers, although she could not always completely understand all that was said.

Song of Karos, the Great God of Scythe, Father of Tharn folk, Dweller in Darkness.

Around them, a thousand Dwellers hooted and roared and laughed, threw food, made spoken kudos bets that they would later deny or inflate accordingly, and traded insults.

There is a furious debate going on in Dweller society even as we speak -- and probably for some time to come, Dwellers being, well, Dwellers -regarding to what extent the undying admiration of every even vaguely sentient species in the rest of the galaxy and possibly beyond could possibly constitute a general increase in the background kudos level for all Dwellers, and therefore a valid reason for throwing open their galactic transport system to all.

We are on our way to the Chistimonouth system, Duty Receptioneer Ninth Lapidarian told the Dweller and the human as they made their way along a vast curved corridor deep within the giant ship.

For Lesk had determined that The Dweller was a hell-lander, sent here to spy on us and provoke us, perhaps preparing the way for large-scale invasion.

Seers were really Navarchy, Cessoria and Shrievalty scouts - spies, if you wanted to be blunt about it - searching for Fassin Taak, searching for the also-disappeared Dweller called Valseir, searching for any sign of those weapons used against the Mercatorial forces during the battle in the GasClipper storm race and searching too for any hints or traces of the Dweller List and anything remotely associated with it - so far, admittedly, all completely without success.