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OCCUPANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("occupant" is a kind of...):
denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occupant"):
Alexandrian (a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt))
coaster (a resident of a coastal area)
colonial (a resident of a colony)
dalesman (a person who lives in the dales of northern England)
housemate (someone who resides in the same house with you)
inmate (one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital))
metropolitan (a person who lives in a metropolis)
outlier (a person who lives away from his place of work)
owner-occupier (an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in)
sojourner (a temporary resident)
stater (a resident of a particular state or group of states)
suburbanite (a resident of a suburb)
tenant (any occupant who dwells in a place)
towner; townsman (a resident of a town or city)
Derivation:
occupancy (the act of occupying or taking possession of a building)
occupancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)
occupy (live (in a certain place))
Context examples:
One-half of the lattice window was swinging on its hinge, and a cloth cap lying upon the table was the only sign of the occupant.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Moffats were very fashionable, and simple Meg was rather daunted, at first, by the splendor of the house and the elegance of its occupants.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In the centre of the dais were two very high chairs with dorserets, which arched forwards over the heads of the occupants, the whole covered with light-blue silk thickly powdered with golden stars.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My first days in this village were devoted to a series of walks in which in the intervals of my botanical researches I made a reconnaissance of all the large houses and an examination of the family history of the occupants.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A strange place was this humble kitchen for such occupants!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The metallic clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oars were shipped, and its occupants waited for us to heave to and take them aboard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An old woman, who had been employed about the house for some weeks past, while Peggotty had been unable to attend to it, was the house's only other occupant besides myself.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The occupants had evidently retired to rest, for all was dark save for a fanlight over the hall door, which shed a single blurred circle on to the garden path.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
