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resident

[ rez-i-duhnt ]

noun

  1. a person who resides in a place.
  2. a physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training usually in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises.
  3. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court.
  4. (formerly) a representative of the British governor general at a court in India.
  5. (formerly) the governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies.


adjective

  1. residing; dwelling in a place.
  2. living or staying at a place in discharge of duty.
  3. (of qualities) existing; intrinsic.
  4. (of birds) not migratory.
  5. Computers.
    1. encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
    2. (of a computer program) currently active or standing by in computer memory.

resident

/ ˈrɛzɪdənt /

noun

  1. a person who resides in a place
  2. social welfare an occupant of a welfare agency home Former nameinmate
  3. (esp formerly) a representative of the British government in a British protectorate
  4. (esp in the 17th century) a diplomatic representative ranking below an ambassador
  5. (in India, formerly) a representative of the British governor general at the court of a native prince
  6. a bird or other animal that does not migrate
  7. a physician who lives in the hospital where he or she works while undergoing specialist training after completing his or her internship Compare house physician
  8. a junior doctor, esp a house officer, who lives in the hospital in which he or she works
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. living in a place; residing
  2. living or staying at a place in order to discharge a duty, etc
  3. (of qualities, characteristics, etc) existing or inherent (in)
  4. (of birds and other animals) not in the habit of migrating
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈresidentˌship, noun
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Other Words From

  • res·i·dent·ship noun
  • pseu·do·res·i·dent adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of resident1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Middle French, from Latin resident- (stem of residēns ), present participle of residēre “to reside”; reside, -ent
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Example Sentences

For thousands of residents of Los Angeles, the fires took almost everything they had.

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He had been a resident there for 43 years.

At New York Drive and Sinaloa Avenue, some residents waited for two hours.

County residents, legions of displaced families and individuals are grabbing rooms in surrounding counties, especially along the coast and in the desert.

They were among the many Pacific Palisades residents who have been turned away at the checkpoints that ring the evacuation zone that has spread across much of the neighborhood and surrounding areas this week.

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