All 6 Uses of
inhabitant
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- His salient angles fitted into the retreating angles of the cathedral (if we may be allowed this figure of speech), and he seemed not only its inhabitant but more than that, its natural tenant.†
Chpt 1.4.3 *inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
- But to believe in the collar bone, in the full line and in the stars, is as ridiculous as to believe with the inhabitants of Grand-Cathay that the golden oriole turns into a mole, and that grains of wheat turn into fish of the carp species.†
Chpt 1.5.1inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- She took care to dress herself in the morning in the corner of her cell for fear some inhabitants of the neighboring attics might see her through the window.†
Chpt 2.9.4
- Thus, in 1465, an order to the inhabitants to light candles in their windows at nightfall, and to shut up their dogs under penalty of death; in the same year, an order to close the streets in the evening with iron chains, and a prohibition to wear daggers or weapons of offence in the streets at night.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- At this detonation, the peaceable inhabitants of the surrounding houses woke up; many windows were seen to open, and nightcaps and hands holding candles appeared at the casements.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- And then, the character of the inhabitants.†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
a person who lives in a particular place