Word Meanings - HABITANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or cultivators of the soil. Parkman. (more info) 1. An inhabitant;

Additional info about word: HABITANT

An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural. The habitants or cultivators of the soil. Parkman. (more info) 1. An inhabitant; a dweller. Milton. Pope. 2. Etym:

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• RESIDENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
• RESIDENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a residentiary.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• PLURAL
  Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number , the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
• PLURALIST
  A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice. Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• DENOTE
  1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken;
• INHABITANT
  One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident. (more info) 1. One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city,
• PLURALIZER
  A pluralist.
• PLURALIZE
  1. To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form. 2. To multiply; to make manifold.
• CANADA
  A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice
• FRENCH
  Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. French bean , the common kidney bean . -- French berry , the berry of a species of buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment. -- French casement See French
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• ADENOTOMIC
  Pertaining to adenotomy.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• RECRUDESCENT
  recrudescere to become raw again; pref. re- re- + crudescere to 1. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. 2. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic.