colonial vs occupant

colonial and occupant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colonial	Yes	Yes	No	No
occupant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, occupant is a hypernym of colonial; that is, occupant is a word with a broader meaning than colonial:

colonial: a resident of a colony
occupant: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Other hypernyms of colonial include occupier, resident.

colonial (noun)	occupant (noun)
a resident of a colony	someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

colonial (adjective)	occupant (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony
of animals who live in colonies, such as ants
composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony