- resident, occupant, occupier - someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
--1 is a kind of inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
--1 has particulars:Latin American, Spanish American; coaster; colonial; dalesman; inmate; metropolitan; outlier; owner-occupier; sojourner; stater; suburbanite; tenant; townsman, towner Derived form: verb occupy3