All 5 Uses of
inhabitant
in
The Fountainhead
- There was the same severe, mathematical order holding together a free, fantastic growth; straight lines and clean angles, space slashed with a knife, yet in a harmony of formation as delicate as the work of a jeweler; an incredible variety of shapes, each separate unit unrepeated, but leading inevitably to the next one and to the whole; so that the future inhabitants were to have, not a square cage out of a square pile of cages, but each a single house held to the other houses like a single crystal to the side of a rock.†
Chpt 2.4inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- So much better than to see it growing old and soot-stained, degraded by the family photographs, the dirty socks, the cocktail shakers and the grapefruit rinds of its inhabitants.†
Chpt 2.8
- Once, in the lobby of his house, she saw a man stepping out of the elevator; she was shocked for a second; she had always felt as if he were the only inhabitant of that house.†
Chpt 2.8inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
- When a Canadian village was cut off from the world by an avalanche, it was the Banner that sent a balloon to drop food and Bibles to the inhabitants.†
Chpt 3.1 *inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- He says nobody should be allowed to build anything anywhere until every inhabitant of the globe has a roof over his head...Well, what about the Patagonians?†
Chpt 4.6inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
Definition:
a person who lives in a particular place