resident
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
resident (plural residents)
- 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.
- 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.
- (law) a legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
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Adjective
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.
- (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
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Further reading
- “resident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “resident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “resident”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
resident m (plural residents, feminine residenta)
Ladin
Noun
resident m (plural residenc)
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) resident
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)
References
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