Definitions
someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant.
Used in a sentence
“I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position”
“occupant of the Oval Office”
“I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Person living there”8 letters
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