Word Meanings - INMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In

Additional info about word: INMATE

One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INMATE)

• Inhabitant
• Occupant
• tenant
• resident
• native
• inmate

Related words: (words related to INMATE)

• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• RESIDENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
• RESIDENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a residentiary.
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• 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,
• OCCUPANT
  1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. 2. A prostitute.
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• RESIDENTSHIP
  The office or condition of a resident.
• RESIDENT
  1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. 2. Fixed; stable; certain. "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer.
• INMATE
  One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In
• RESIDENTER
  A resident.
• NATIVELY
  By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
• NATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being native.
• RESIDENTIARY
  Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More.
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• CONGLUTINATIVE
  Conglutinant.
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• URINATIVE
  Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
• EMANATIVELY
  By an emanation.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.