occupant
/ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/US/ˈɑ.kjə.pənt/
occupant noun: a person who occupies an office or a position.
Noun
occupant (plural occupants)
- A person who occupies an office or a position.
- I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position
- occupant of the Oval Office
- A person who occupies a place.
- A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.
- The owner or tenant of a property.
- I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
occupant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
occupant in Tamil
- உறைபவர், குடியிருப்பவர், குடியிருப்புக்காரர், தங்கி வாழ்பவர், பயன் படுத்துபவர், பற்றுடைமையாளர்
occupant in Urdu
- پٹے دار, قابض, ساکن
occupant in Bengali
- দখলদার, নিবাসী
occupant in Malayalam
- inhabitant, resident, owner
- കെെവശക്കാരൻ, കുടിപാർപ്പുകാരൻ, താമസക്കാരൻ, സ്ഥിരവാസി, സ്ഥിരനിവാസി, ഗേഹി
- incumbent, holder
- അനുഭവക്കാരൻ, സ്ഥാനി, ഔദ്യോഗികസ്ഥാനം ഇപ്പോൾ വഹിക്കുന്നയാൾ, ഉദ്യോഗം ഭരിക്കുന്നയാൾ
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- occupant in Kannada
- ನೆಲಸಿಗ, ನಿವಾಸಿ, ವಾಸಿಗ, ಒಕ್ಕಲು
- occupant in Persian
- صاحب sâheb, مالک mâlek
Examples of occupant in a sentence
- The poor condition of the vehicle put its occupants in constant jeopardy.
- All the occupants managed to get out of the burning building.
- The seatback should always be up while driving so that the occupant doesn't submarine and potentially suffer severe internal injury.
Synonyms of occupant
Forms of occupant
| plural | occupants |
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Origin of occupant
Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant.
Words formed from occupant
Questions about occupant
- What does occupant mean?
- Occupant means a person who occupies an office or a position.
- What is occupant in Tamil?
- Occupant in Tamil is உறைபவர், குடியிருப்பவர், குடியிருப்புக்காரர். See Occupant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is occupant?
- Occupant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce occupant?
- Occupant is pronounced /ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of occupant?
- The plural of occupant is occupants.
Words near occupant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: occupant (page history and authors); occupant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Occupant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); occupant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); occupant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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