English words for 'A previous occupant.'
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noun
- a tenant in someone's house
- a pupil who lives at school during term time
- someone who forces their way aboard ship
- (nautical) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
- A pupil who lives at school during term time.
- (sports) Clipping of snowboarder.
- Misspelling of border.
- (sports) Clipping of skateboarder.
- Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
- Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
- One who boards a vehicle.
adj
intj
verb
adj
- Former, previous.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
noun
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times
noun
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The head of a Sunday school.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
adj
noun
- one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- a patient who is residing in the hospital where they are being treated
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
- (uncommon) Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
noun
- a tenant who holds a lease
- Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner.
- An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.
- The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
verb
noun
- One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
- (US, Mormonism) A male missionary.
- (relational, chiefly in the plural, chiefly with possessive determiners) One who is older than another.
- A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
- A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
- (now chiefly US) An old person.
- (Mormonism, often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
- A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.
- (Germanic paganism) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
- An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
- (US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white and yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).
- A cow's udder, especially used as food.
- a person who is older than you are
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
- any of various church officers
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the occupants of a building
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
- the act of constructing something
- (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building.
- (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
verb
noun
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
adj
noun
- An owner.
- A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
- (history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
- One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
- (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
noun
- any occupant who dwells in a place
- someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
- One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
- (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
- (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
- Misconstruction of tenet.
verb
noun
- the keeper of a public house
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).
- (Commonwealth, by extension) The manager or owner of a hotel.
noun
adj
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- very old
- (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
noun
- a very old person
- A very old person.
- any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.
- (biblical) A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
adj
- of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
- Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
- (by extension) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
- (biblical) Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
verb
- occupy a place
- of trains; move into (a station)
- move into a new house or office
- (transitive) To bring to a new place to live.
- (intransitive) To start living or working in a new place; to transport one's belongings to a new home or workplace; to make one's home or workplace into a suitable environment.
- (intransitive) To move closer.
- (intransitive) To attempt to take control (of something) forcibly.
adv
adj
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
noun
noun
- An elderly relative.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
- A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
- A person regarded as the product of some place.
- A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
- A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
- (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- One's male offspring.
- (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
- a male human offspring
verb
noun
- a tenant in someone's house
- a pupil who lives at school during term time
- someone who forces their way aboard ship
- (nautical) A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
- A pupil who lives at school during term time.
- (sports) Clipping of snowboarder.
- Misspelling of border.
- (sports) Clipping of skateboarder.
- Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
- Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
- One who boards a vehicle.
noun
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- a person who directs and manages an organization
- (Commonwealth, law enforcement) A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
- The head of a Sunday school.
- The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
- A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
- (chiefly US) A janitor.
- In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
adj
noun
- one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital)
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- a patient who is residing in the hospital where they are being treated
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
- (uncommon) Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
noun
- a tenant who holds a lease
- Someone who is allowed to use a house, building, land etc. for a period of time in return for payment to the owner.
- An individual or a corporation who has the right of use of something of value, gained through a lease agreement with the real owner of the property.
- The entity to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
verb
noun
- One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
- (US, Mormonism) A male missionary.
- (relational, chiefly in the plural, chiefly with possessive determiners) One who is older than another.
- A small tree, Sambucus nigra, having white flowers in a cluster, and edible purple berries.
- A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments.
- (now chiefly US) An old person.
- (Mormonism, often capitalized) Title for a male missionary; title for a general authority.
- A leader or senior member of a tribe or community, often of considerable age, respected as an authority figure, especially in a counselling, consultative, or ceremonial role.
- (Germanic paganism) A pagan or Heathen priest or priestess.
- An officer of a church, sometimes having teaching responsibilities.
- (US, Mormonism) One ordained to the lowest office in the Melchizedek priesthood.
- Any of the other species of the genus Sambucus: small trees, shrubs or herbaceous perennials with red, purple, or white and yellow berries (some of which are poisonous).
- A cow's udder, especially used as food.
- a person who is older than you are
- any of numerous shrubs or small trees of temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere having white flowers and berrylike fruit
- any of various church officers
adj
verb
noun
noun
- the occupants of a building
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
- the act of constructing something
- (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building.
- (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
verb
noun
- Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
- Someone who is alive: one of the living.
- (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
- (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
- (uncommon) Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
- A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
- liver of an animal used as meat
- large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- someone who lives in a place
- a person who has a special life style
adj
noun
- An owner.
- A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
- (history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
- One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
- (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
noun
- any occupant who dwells in a place
- someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
- One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
- (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
- (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
- Misconstruction of tenet.
verb
noun
- the keeper of a public house
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).
- (Commonwealth, by extension) The manager or owner of a hotel.
noun
adj
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- very old
- (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
noun
- a very old person
- A very old person.
- any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- A person with extremely old-fashioned attitudes, ideas, etc., especially to a laughable extent; a fogey or old fogey.
- (biblical) A person who lived in the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, especially one of the biblical patriarchs.
adj
- of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
- so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
- Of attitudes, ideas, etc.: extremely old-fashioned, especially to a laughable extent; antiquated.
- Of a person or thing: very old; ancient.
- (by extension) Of animals and plants: long extinct; prehistoric.
- (biblical) Belonging or pertaining to, or existing in, the time prior to the great flood described in Genesis, or (by extension) to a great or destructive flood or deluge described in other mythologies.
noun
- An elderly relative.
- (biology) A genetic precursor.
- The spirit of one's ancestor.
- (India, law) A descendant of one's ancestors.
- One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.
- An ancestor or forbear.
- (logic) A relationship in which something is a precursor.
- An earlier version of something.
- A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.
adj
noun
- A familiar address to a male person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- (UK, New York City, colloquial) An informal address to a friend or person of equal authority.
- A male person who has such a close relationship with an older or otherwise more authoritative person that he can be regarded as a son of the other person.
- A person regarded as the product of some place.
- A male person considered to have been significantly shaped by social conflict.
- A male adopted person in relation to his adoptive parents.
- (computing) The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- One's male offspring.
- (music) Son cubano, a genre of music and dance blending Spanish and African elements that originated in Cuba during the late 19th century.
- a male human offspring
verb
verb
- occupy a place
- of trains; move into (a station)
- move into a new house or office
- (transitive) To bring to a new place to live.
- (intransitive) To start living or working in a new place; to transport one's belongings to a new home or workplace; to make one's home or workplace into a suitable environment.
- (intransitive) To move closer.
- (intransitive) To attempt to take control (of something) forcibly.
noun
- any occupant who dwells in a place
- someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease)
- (chiefly historical) One who holds a feudal tenure in real property.
- One who holds a lease (a tenancy).
- (computing) Any of a number of customers serviced through the same instance of an application.
- (property law, by extension) One who owns real estate other than via allodial title.
- (by extension) One who has possession of any place.
- Misconstruction of tenet.
verb
adv
adj
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
noun
adj
intj
verb
adj
- Former, previous.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
noun
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times