dweller
One who stays
A dweller is someone who lives in a particular place.
The word almost always appears with a modifier specifying location: city dwellers, cave dwellers, apartment dwellers, cliff dwellers.
On its own, dweller sounds incomplete—you dwell somewhere, making you a dweller of that place.
One dwelling within
- residentOne who inhabits
- tenantOne who rents property
- lodgerRenting occupant of rooms
- boarderOne who pays for lodging
renter · leaseholder · housemate · flatmate · roommate · homeowner · settler · homesteader
Rented unit in building
- highriseMultistory urban building
- commuterOne who travels regularly
- subwayUnderground transit passage
- metropolitanOf a major city
downtown · condo · townhouse · streetwise · cosmopolitan · gentrifier · neighbor · block
Originating in a region
- aboriginalIndigenous to a place
- autochthonousOriginating where found
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- tribalOf a clan
local · traditional · endemic · original · birthright · homeland · rootedness · belonging
occupant
One dwelling within
boarder · renter · leaseholder · housemate · flatmate · roommate · homeowner · settler · homesteader · squatter
apartment
Rented unit in building
metropolitan · downtown · condo · townhouse · streetwise · cosmopolitan · gentrifier · neighbor · block · tenant
indigenous
Originating in a region
- aboriginalIndigenous to a place
- autochthonousOriginating where found
- ancestralOf one's forebears
tribal · local · traditional · endemic · original · birthright · homeland · rootedness · belonging · lineage
troglodyte
Cave-dwelling person
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- burrowAnimal's dug dwelling
- cavernLarge natural underground chamber
tunnel · spelunker · grotto · warren · den · lair · catacomb · bunker · basement
farmhouse
Dwelling on agricultural land
pastoral · agrarian · smallholder · rancher · outback · bushman · countryman · hamlet · prairie
- occupantsoccupant, resident, tenant, inhabitant, occupier
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- urbanitesresident, tenant, renter, townsperson, occupant
- occupancyoccupant, tenant, renter, lessee, lodger
- property rolesproperty owner, homeowner, landlord, tenant, lessee
- dung dwellersdung beetle, scarab beetle, scarab, sacred scarab, tumblebug
dwellerexile
Banishment from homeland
refugee · nonresident · displaced person · expatriate · emigrant
dwellerlandlord
Property owner renting out
property owner · lessor · proprietor · landowner · absentee landlord
- dwell onThink about excessively
- forest dwellersBeings inhabiting wooded areas
- cliff dwellingsHomes built into rockfaces
- city dwellersPeople living in metropolises
- cave dwellersThose residing in caverns
- mountain dwellersResidents of elevated terrain