OCCUPANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does occupant mean? 

• OCCUPANT (noun)
  The noun OCCUPANT has 1 sense:

1. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

  Familiarity information: OCCUPANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OCCUPANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

occupant; occupier; resident

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 

The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then, having inquired as to the occupants of the Hall, you will come back to me and report.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These with their master and mistress were the sole occupants of Lachine, for the Barclays had no children, nor was it usual for them to have resident visitors.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A description of a personal residence and the relationship between the occupants that reside there.

(Living Arrangement, NCI Thesaurus)

“Is it the last occupant's furniture?” inquired my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The boat contained four men, and its fifth occupant was certainly a woman.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I examined first, the parlour, and then its occupant.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was already dusk, and the lamps were just being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, waiting for the coming of its occupant.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With Mercury retrograde, you may discover that the current occupant has not given you full disclosure about things you’ll have to fix once you move in.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was a weird place in itself, but its occupants made it seem like a scene from the Seven Circles of Dante.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)