dwellers
Those who reside
Dwellers are people who live in a particular place or type of environment.
The word almost always appears with a modifier specifying the habitat: city dwellers, cave dwellers, apartment dwellers, forest dwellers.
It emphasizes ongoing residence rather than temporary presence—dwellers belong to a place in some sustained way.
Permanent occupants of place
- neighborsThose dwelling nearby
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
- townspeopleMunicipal area inhabitants
- localsArea's permanent inhabitants
settlers · colonists · commune · collective · enclave · hamlet · borough · suburbanites
Indigenous to a place
- nativeOriginating from a place
- tribalOf a clan
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- traditionalFollowing long-held customs
autochthonous · pre-colonial · tribespeople · clanspeople · original · ancient · reservation · homeland
Unsettled, roving people
- migrantsPeople who move elsewhere
- expatriatesPeople living outside homeland
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- transientsTemporary occupants or travelers
boarders · lodgers · roomers · renters · leaseholders · squatters · sojourners · itinerants
inhabitants
Permanent occupants of place
- neighborsThose dwelling nearby
- villagersInhabitants of small settlements
- townspeopleMunicipal area inhabitants
locals · settlers · colonists · commune · collective · enclave · hamlet · borough · suburbanites · urbanites
aboriginal
Indigenous to a place
traditional · autochthonous · pre-colonial · tribespeople · clanspeople · original · ancient · reservation · homeland · elders
nomads
Unsettled, roving people
- migrantsPeople who move elsewhere
- expatriatesPeople living outside homeland
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
transients · boarders · lodgers · roomers · renters · leaseholders · squatters · sojourners · itinerants · temporary
- householdshousehold, nuclear family, married couple, occupants, roommates
- residentsresident, inhabitants, inhabitant, local, locals
- townsfolkvillagers, townsman, townswoman, townfolk, folk
- localsnatives, villagers, townsfolk, inhabitants, denizens
- scarab beetlesscarab, scarab beetle, dung beetle, rhinoceros beetle, June beetle
- night terrorsnightmares, bogeymen, sleep paralysis, ghosts, phantoms
dwellersvisitors
People who come temporarily
passersby · nomads · transients · tourists · travelers
dwellersstrangers
People unknown to you
outsiders · newcomers · foreigners · aliens · non-residents
- forest dwellersBeings inhabiting wooded areas
- city dwellersPeople living in metropolises
- cave dwellersThose residing in caverns
- mountain dwellersResidents of elevated terrain
- bottom dwellerOrganism living on seafloor
- basement dwellerPerson living underground level