What's the difference between dweller and oppidan?
Dweller
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(2) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(3) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
(4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
(5) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
(6) • the following correction was published on 30 October 2011: People and numbers: "Global growth fears put to the test" (News) said Africa "had fewer than 500,000 urban dwellers in 1950", but the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa puts the figure at 14.9% of total population – 33 million.
(7) But indigenous and environmental groups claim Belo Monte will displace tens of thousands of river-dwellers and bring violence and social chaos to the Amazon state of Para.
(8) Urban dwellers had a higher prevalence of abnormal smears (15%) compared with town camp and rural women (2%).
(9) As the Reuters news agency reports: With a 100 percent record so far, the British-born aquarium dweller at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany has become a celebrity having correctly predicted a series of German wins and even Germany's surprise group stage loss to Serbia.
(10) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
(11) The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers.
(12) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
(13) But there are concerns in the region about the impact of the new arrivals in urban areas and emerging tensions between the newcomers and existing town-dwellers.
(14) Random sample of 2,792 community dwellers aged 65 and over (participation rate: 69%).
(15) Corals are crucial to the livelihoods of millions of coastal dwellers around the world.
(16) However, important and unexplained differences in glucose tolerance remained between rural and periurban coastal dwellers after taking these factors into account.
(17) Filaria surveys conducted in some select slum clusters namely Hari Nagar, Yamuna pusht near Vijaya Ghat along the Ring Road and Timarpur in Delhi during 1989, 1991 and 1992 respectively, covering a population of approximately 5000 slum dwellers revealed the presence of bancroftian microfilaria (mf) carriers and disease cases.
(18) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
(19) Zymodemes considered to be non-pathogenic (I and XVI) were identified in 34 of 37 isolates from slum dwellers and were not associated with blood in the stools.
(20) In 2011, they published a study in the journal Nature showing that, compared to people who live in the countryside, city-dwellers are hyperactive in a region of the brain called the amygdala, which is linked to depression and anxiety.
Oppidan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a town.
(n.) An inhabitant of a town.
(n.) A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.