residence

See also résidence

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin residentia, from Latin resident- stem of residentis, from resideo.

Pronunciation

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Noun

residence (plural residences)

1. The place where one lives.
   • Macaulay

     Johnson took up his residence in London.

2. A building used as a home.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
   • Sir M. Hale

     The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

5. The place where anything rests permanently.
   • Milton

     But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship.

6. subsidence, as of a sediment

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7. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

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Related terms

• reside
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

place where one lives

• Arabic: مسكن (ar) (máskan) m
• Bulgarian: местожителство (bg) (mestožítelstvo) n
• Catalan: residència (ca) f
• Chinese: 居所 (cmn) (jūsuǒ)
• Danish: bopæl (da) c
• Dutch: woonplaats (nl) f
• Esperanto: loĝejo (eo)
• Finnish: kotipaikka (fi), asuinpaikka (fi)
• French: résidence (fr) f
• German: Wohnsitz (de) m
• Greek: κατοικία (el) (katoikía) f
• Hindi: निवास (hi), रहने का स्थान (hi)
• Hungarian: lakhely (hu)
• Italian: residenza (it) f

• Japanese: 住宅 (ja) (jūtaku)
• Korean: 주소 (ko) (juso)
• Lojban: se xabju
• Norwegian: bosted (no) n
• Portuguese: residência (pt) f
• Russian: местожительство (ru) (mestožítel’stvo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh (gd) f, ionad-còmhnaidh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: obitavalište (sh), boravište (sh), stan (sh), prebivalište (sh), stanište (sh)
• Spanish: residencia (es) f
• Swahili: makao (sw)
• Swedish: bostad (sv) c (if living in a building) boplats (sv) c, boställe (sv) n (otherwise)
• Telugu: నివాసము (te)
• Turkish: konut (tr), ev (tr), hane (tr), rezidans (tr)

place where a corporation is established

• Catalan: seu social (ca) f
• Finnish: kotipaikka (fi)
• French: siège social (fr) m

• German: Sitz (de) m, Firmensitz (de) m
• Greek: έδρα (el) (édra) f
• Swahili: makao (sw)

building used as a home

• Catalan: residència (ca) f
• Danish: bopæl (da) c
• Dutch: residentie (nl)
• Finnish: koti (fi), kotitalo (fi), asunto (fi), asuinrakennus
• French: résidence (fr) f
• Greek: κατοικία (el) (katoikía) f

• Hindi: गृह (hi)
• Norwegian: bolig (no) m
• Scottish Gaelic: còmhnaidh (gd) f, ionad-còmhnaidh (gd) m
• Swahili: makao (sw)
• Swedish: bostad (sv) c
• Turkish: konut (tr)

External links

• residence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• residence in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• residence at OneLook Dictionary Search