3 uses
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Definition
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
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someone presently in a room, car, or seat
or:
someone currently holding a position
- The coffee-room had no other occupant, that forenoon, than the gentleman in brown.1.4 — The Preparation (9% in)
- The sunset struck so brilliantly into the travelling carriage when it gained the hill-top, that its occupant was steeped in crimson.2.8 — Monseigneur in the Country (8% in)
- Before their cells were quit of them, new occupants were appointed; before their blood ran into the blood spilled yesterday, the blood that was to mingle with theirs to-morrow was already set apart.3.13 — Fifty-two (1% in)
There are no more uses of "occupant" in A Tale of Two Cities.
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