{
    "term": "inhabitant",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or an animal that lives in a particular place",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the oldest inhabitant of the village"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is a town of about 10 000 inhabitants."
                },
                {
                    "text": "77% of the inhabitants lived in the countryside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is Brixham's oldest inhabitant."
                },
                {
                    "text": "London has just under ten million inhabitants."
                },
                {
                    "text": "São Paulo has nearly 23 million inhabitants."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The island's earliest inhabitants came from India."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It eats mice, lizards and other small inhabitants of the forest floor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the inhabitants of the rainforest/​tundra/​remote islands"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["local", "early", "first"],
                "verb + inhabitant": ["have"],
                "inhabitant + verb": ["live"],
                "preposition": ["of…inhabitant", "with…inhabitant"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/",
                "audio": "in/inhabitant/inhabitant__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæbɪtənt/",
                "audio": "in/inhabitant/inhabitant__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin inhabitare ‘inhabit’."
}