Learn English – Antonym of nomad

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What do you call someone who isn't a nomad? Someone who has a fixed abode.

I tried a google search, but this post and this one had some rather disappointing answers.

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The antonym of nomad is nonnomad. It is mentioned in dictionary.reference.com also.

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Examples from Google Books:

...“fixed abode of the nomad (Beduin), whom death transforms into a permanent settler (nonnomad) (mugim) for all eternity”

The Spiritual Background of Early Islam by M.M. Bravmann


This represented the first time “Uyghur” entered official use to refer to the Türki-speaking nonnomad population of southern Xinjiang.

Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland by S. Frederick Starr

Note: The hyphenated form non-nomad looks like more common based on Google Books result.