Residence
['rezɪd(ə)ns] or ['rɛzɪdəns]
Definition
(noun.) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); 'he refused to live in the governor's residence'.
(noun.) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; 'a person can have several residences'.
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Definition
(n.) The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
(n.) The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
(n.) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
(n.) The place where anything rests permanently.
(n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment.
(n.) That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Habitancy, inhabitancy, legal settlement.[2]. Habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, mansion, house, place of abode, place of residence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:stay, sojourn, occupation, abode, pernoctation, dwelling, location
ANT:Migration, travel, locomotion, absenteeism, nonresidence, alibi
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Unserious Contents or Definition
A rural locality inhabited annually—for a few hours—by a rich New Yorker or Bostonian.
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Examples
- So the world was kind enough to call him; and so he was, if more than twenty years of residence gave him a claim to the title. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She is happy then, said her father drily; and her residence there will probably be of some duration. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- You talk of giving it the air of a gentleman's residence. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- No, he said coolly: when you have indicated to us the residence of your friends, we can write to them, and you may be restored to home. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nor was her residence at her mother's house of a nature to restore her gaiety. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There was a great quantity and variety of stuff, as the Claytons had expected a possible five to eight years' residence in their new home. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He liked Sicily as a place of residence better than he liked Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Certainly, if years of residence may establish a claim to so--ha--honourable a title, I may accept the--hum--conferred distinction. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Instead, during our long residence here, he has been uniformly consistent in his role of protector and provider. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In short, they suffered so many disappointments, that they began to think it would be necessary to build a palatial residence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The air of a gentleman's residence, therefore, you cannot but give it, if you do anything. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is very suggestive of the unhealthiness of underground graveyards as places of residence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Princess was married by proxy, at her father's residence, by the Count de Schlusselback. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Acetylene is seldom used in large cities, but it is very widely used in small communities and is particularly convenient in more or less remote summer residences. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Dolls attended at their own residences. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Their residences are usually on the outskirts of 'the Rules,' chiefly lying within a circle of one mile from the obelisk in St. George's Fields. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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