dweller : Idioms & Phrases

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bottom-dweller

  • noun a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
    bottom-feeder.
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Cave dweller

  • noun someone who lives in a cave
    caveman; troglodyte; cave man.
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  • a savage of prehistoric times whose dwelling place was a cave. Tylor.
Webster 1913

cliff dweller

  • noun a member of the Anasazi people living in the southwestern United States who built rock or adobe dwellings on ledges in the sides of caves
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cottage dweller

  • noun someone who lives in a cottage
    cottager.
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island-dweller

  • noun an inhabitant of an island
    islander.
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Lake dwellers

  • (Ethnol.), people of a prehistoric race, or races, which inhabited different parts of Europe. Their dwellings were built on piles in lakes, a short distance from the shore. Their relics are common in the lakes of Switzerland.
Webster 1913

lake-dweller

Lake"-dwell`er noun
Definitions
  1. See Lake dwellers, under Lake.
Webster 1913