resident
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin residēns, past participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”).
Noun[edit]
resident (plural residents)
- A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
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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.
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The tiger lily is a resident of Asia.
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- A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
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She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
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- A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
- (law) a legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person 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
- (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[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]
Catalan[edit]
Noun[edit]
resident m (plural residents, feminine residenta)
Ladin[edit]
Noun[edit]
resident m (plural residenc)
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
resident
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Latin residentem, accusative singular of residēns, from the verb resideō.
Adjective[edit]
resident m (oblique and nominative feminine singular resident or residente)
References[edit]
- resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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