All 3 Uses of
occupant
in
Great Expectations
- I divined that my coming had stopped conversation in the room, and that its other occupants were looking at me.†
Chpt 11 *
- I thought the windows of the sets of chambers into which those houses were divided were in every stage of dilapidated blind and curtain, crippled flower-pot, cracked glass, dusty decay, and miserable makeshift; while To Let, To Let, To Let, glared at me from empty rooms, as if no new wretches ever came there, and the vengeance of the soul of Barnard were being slowly appeased by the gradual suicide of the present occupants and their unholy interment under the gravel.†
Chpt 21
- He then knocked at the doors of two other similar rooms, and introduced me to their occupants, by name Drummle and Startop.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(occupant) one who lives or habitually works in a specific place
or:
someone presently in a room, car, or seat
or:
someone currently holding a position