dweller:
(plural: ‘dwellers‘)
‘to dwell’, in this context = to live in a particular place, e.g. city dwellers; to think about a particular thing for a long time, e.g. to dwell on a minor point in an argument, i.e. to keep talking about that simple point for a long time or repeatedly; to live in a particular condition, e.g. to dwell in total happiness, and ‘dwelling’ is a place/area or the surroundings a person lives in
some rural dwellers
a person (or an animal) that dwells;
an inhabitant;
a denizen,
some city dweller
e.g.
When he was offered a job in a remote area, Jim did not accept it because he knew he was a city dweller and might not feel comfortable with the life in the country.
More and more rural dwellers are moving to cities as migrant labourers and this shift is causing concerns in the urban dwellers.
We learnt about the prehistoric cave dwellers from the things they left in the caves and the painting they drew on the inner-walls of the caves they dwelt in.
For an article that talks about a slum dweller who has been successful, please click here, for an article about China’s city dwellers, please click here, for an article about the different dwellers — urban and rural, please click here and for an interesting article on what a cave dweller was, please click here.
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