DWELLER


Meaning of DWELLER in English

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.

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