resident

See also: résident

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin residēns, past participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzɪd(ə)nt/

Noun

resident (plural residents)

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in 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.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
3. A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.

   She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

4. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. (law) a legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.

Derived terms

• permanent resident
• non-resident

Translations

person living at a location or an area

• Arabic: سَاكِن‎ (ar) m (sākin), سُكَّان‎ pl (sukkān)
• Cebuano: lumulupyo, residente
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 居民 (zh) (jūmín)

• Czech: obyvatel (cs)
• Danish: bosiddende
• Estonian: asukas (et), elanik
• Finnish: asukas (fi)
• French: résident (fr) m, résidente (fr) f, habitant (fr) m, habitante (fr) f
• German: Einwohner (de) m, Einwohnerin (de) f, Bewohner (de) m, Bewohnerin (de) f
• Greek: ένοικος (el) m, f (énoikos), κάτοικος (el) m, f (kátoikos)
• Italian: residente (it) m
• Japanese: 居住者 (ja) (きょじゅうしゃ, kyojūsha), 住民 (ja) (じゅうみん, jūmin)
• Kikuyu: mũikari class 1
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئه‌هل‎ (ku) (ehil), خه‌لک‎ (ku) (xelk), دانشتوان‎ (daniştwan)

• Latin: incola (la) m, f
• Lithuanian: gyventojas (lt) m
• Macedonian: жител m (žítel), жителка f (žítelka)
• Ngazidja Comorian: mkazi class 1/2
• Norwegian: beboer
• Polish: mieszkaniec (pl) m, mieszkanka (pl) f, rezydent (pl) m
• Portuguese: morador (pt) m, residente (pt) m, f, habitante (pt) m, f, íncola (pt) m, f
• Romanian: rezident (ro) m
• Russian: жи́тель (ru) m (žítelʹ), жи́тельница (ru) f (žítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: житељ m, становник m

  Roman: žitelj (sh) m, stanovnik (sh) m

• Spanish: residente (es) m, habitante (es)
• Swahili: makao (sw), mwenyeji (sw), makaazi (sw)
• Swedish: boende (sv) c, invånare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: житель m (žýtel'), мешканець m (meškánec')

graduate medical student receiving medical training

• Finnish: erikoistuva lääkäri
• German: Assistentarzt m

• Greek: ειδικευόμενος γιατρός m, f (eidikevómenos giatrós)
• Portuguese: residente (pt) m, f

Adjective

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

1. 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

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   He is our resident computer expert.

3. (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
   • Jeremy Taylor

     stable and resident like a rock

   • Davenant

     one there still resident as day and night

4. (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.

Related terms

• reside
• residence
• residency
• residential

Further reading

• 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

• Dniester, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies

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Catalan

Noun

resident m (plural residents, feminine residenta)

1. resident

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Ladin

Noun

resident m (plural residenc)

1. resident

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Latin

Verb

resident

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resideō

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin residentem, accusative singular of residēns, from the verb resideō.

Adjective

resident m (oblique and nominative feminine singular resident or residente)

1. resident; residing

References

• resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub