towner vs occupant

towner and occupant both are nouns.

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

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

towner: a resident of a town or city
occupant: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Other hypernyms of towner include occupier, resident.

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