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occupant

noun
/ˈɒk.jʊ.pənt/UK/ˈɑ.kjə.pənt/US/ˈɒk.jə.pənt/CA

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant.

  1. borrowed from occupāns
  2. borrowed from occupant

Definitions

  1. 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

  2. A person who occupies a place.

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonoccupant, occupance, occupancy, occupantless, preoccupant

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at occupant. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at occupant. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at occupant

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA