All 5 Uses of
inhabitant
in
1984 by Orwell
- Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants.†
p. 186..9 *
- The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labor power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.†
p. 187..8
- If Oceania were to conquer the areas that used once to be known as France and Germany, it would be necessary either to exterminate the inhabitants, a task of great physical difficulty, or to assimilate a population of about a hundred million people, who, so far as technical development goes, are roughly on the Oceanic level.†
p. 196..3
- Jews, Negroes, South Americans of pure Indian blood are to be found in the highest ranks of the Party, and the administrators of any area are always drawn from the inhabitants of that area.†
p. 209..1
- In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital.†
p. 209..1
Definition:
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(inhabitant) a person who lives in a particular place