occupant

occupant
    n 1: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged
         period or who was born there [syn: {resident}, {occupant},
         {occupier}] [ant: {nonresident}]
    

Occupant \Oc"cu*pant\, n. [L. occupans, p. pr. of occupare: cf.
   F. occupant. See {Occupy}.]
   1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the
      actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing;
      as, the occupant of the apartment is not at home.
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   Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes
         the first possession of a thing that has no owner.
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   2. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Marston.
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OCCUPANT or OCCUPIER. One who has the actual use or possession of a thing. 
     2. He derives his title of occupancy either by taking possession of a 
thing without an owner, or by purchase, or gift of the thing from the owner, 
or it descends to him by due course of law. 
     3. When the occupiers of a house are entitled to a privilege in 
consequence of such occupation, as to pass along a way, to enjoy a pew, and 
the like, a person who occupies a part of such house, however small, is 
entitled to some right, and cannot be deprived of it. 2 B. & A. 164; S. C. 
Eng. C. L. R. 50; 1 Chit. Pr. 209, 210; 4 Com. Dig. 64; 5 Com. Dig. 199. 
    

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "occupant":
      addressee, artist-in-residence, boarder, denizen, dweller,
      habitant, hirer, homesteader, house detective, householder,
      incumbent, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern,
      leaseholder, lessee, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, lodger,
      occupier, owner, paying guest, renter, residencer, resident,
      resident physician, residentiary, resider, roomer, sojourner,
      squatter, sublessee, subtenant, tenant, tenant at sufferance,
      tenant for life, underlessee