| 单词 | house-dweller |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-dweller house-dweller n. a person who lives in a house (often as opposed to a traveller, nomad, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house houseeOE inmate1609 house-dweller1649 1649 J. Owen Serm. preached to House of Commons 75 For house dwellers, servants, or any others, who may break out into such offences. 1749 Merlinus Liberatus sig. C3 Let Honest Travellers, nay, and House-dwellers too, look to it, for they will find Highwaymen and Foot-padders very busy. 1860 ‘N. Buntline’ Morgan (1861) xx. 44/1 Whether you be so unfortunate as to be a house-dweller in a great city, or so fortunate as I, to live amid the lonely grandeur of the far-away forest. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 1 Oct. 3/3 Many of them who dwell in tents during summer and autumn become house-dwellers in Wandsworth..during winter. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. iv. 101 Most of the inhabitants..were house-dwellers. 1992 Independent 16 Mar. 35/7 I dislike some things about gypsies just as I do about house-dwellers. < as lemmas |
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