Difference between Occupant and Resident

What is the difference between Occupant and Resident?

Occupant as a noun is a person who occupies a place or a position. while Resident as a noun is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area

Occupant

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person who occupies a place or a position. An owner or tenant of a property. A person sitting in a car or other vehicle.

Resident

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: the person on hand who is the strongest in a particular skill or professiona student in the medical profession who watches a licensed doctor in order to learn a skill

Part of speech: noun

Definition: person, animal or plant living at a location or in an areaa graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty

Example sentence: After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

We hope you now know whether to use Occupant or Resident in your sentence.

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