occupy
/ˈɑkjəpaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.93 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The film occupied three hours of my time."
- "I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing."
- "The film occupied me for three hours."
- "I occupy myself with gardening for a few hours every day."
- "I occupy the post of deputy cat catcher."
- "I occupied her friend while he made his proposal."
Etymology
From Middle English occupien, occupyen, borrowed from Old French occuper, from Latin occupāre (“to take possession of, seize, occupy, take up, employ”), from ob (“to, on”) + capiō (“to take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize, grab”). Doublet of occupate, now obsolete.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑkjəpaɪ/
- British English: /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
occupies (present, singular)
occupying (participle, present)
occupied (participle, past)
occupied (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
occupied (first person, past)
occupiest (archaic, present)
occupied (past, second person)
occupieth (archaic, present)
occupied (past, singular)
occupied (past, plural)