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Dweller vs Oppidan - What's the difference?

dweller | oppidan |

As nouns the difference between dweller and oppidan

is that dweller is an inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen while oppidan is (rare|obsolete) a town dweller.

As an adjective oppidan is

(rare) of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.

dweller

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
    • The new couple are apartment dwellers .

    Derived terms

    * cellar dweller

    Related terms

    * dwell

    oppidan

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.
  • * 1843 , George Calvert Holland, The Vital Statistics of Sheffield [http://books.google.com/books?id=57kHAAAAQAAJ], page 106:
    • ... calculating the portions of the population, which are purely oppidan , suburban and rural, separately, ...
  • * 1982 , Ion Miclea and Corneliu Bucur, An Ages-old Civilization [http://books.google.com/books?id=QkwvAAAAMAAJ]:
    • In terms of socio-economic impact, it appears that the water mill was an oppidan development in the Roman possessions, including Dacia.
  • * 1984 , Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Confessions of a Prosaic Dreamer: Charles Lamb's art of autobiography [http://books.google.com/books?id=hd5rK-fXdM4C], ISBN 0822305968, page 78:
    • The beggar whom Elia encounters... is an oppidan caricature of the old man in “Witches” who was conjured up in the demonic vision, a dark, irrational double that overwhelms and destroys innocence.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, obsolete) A town dweller.
  • * 1856 , John Wade, England's Greatness [http://books.google.com/books?id=KqguAAAAMAAJ], page 496:
    • But money is all-potent, and wealthy oppidans soon found means to elbow the aristocracy in their choicest assemblies.
  • (also Oppidan) A class of student in traditional English public schools such as ; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.
  • * 1983 , Bridget Boland and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, The Lisle Letters [http://books.google.com/books?id=WWeZogmqYooC], ISBN 0226088006, page 96:
    • ... might conceivably imply that he did not live, as the custom had been for such boys, in the Abbot's own house, but lodged in the town of Winchester and perhaps attended the College as an oppidan , or townsman.