resident
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin residens, past participle of residere (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedere (“to sit”).
Noun[edit]
resident (plural residents)
- Person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, The Celebrity:
- Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
- The tiger lily is a resident of Asia.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, The Celebrity:
- A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
- She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
- A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
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Translations[edit]
persons living at a location or an area
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graduate medical student receiving medical training
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Adjective[edit]
resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)
- Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
- resident in the city or in the country
- Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
- He is our resident computer expert.
- (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
- Jeremy Taylor
- stable and resident like a rock
- Davenant
- one there still resident as day and night
- Jeremy Taylor
Related terms[edit]
External links[edit]
- resident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- resident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- resident at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams[edit]
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Noun[edit]
resident m (plural residenc)
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Verb[edit]
resident
- third-person plural present active indicative of resideō
