Resident
['rezɪd(ə)nt] or ['rɛzɪdənt]
Definition
(noun.) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there.
(adj.) living in a particular place; 'resident aliens' .
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Definition
(a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
(a.) Fixed; stable; certain.
(n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
(n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Abiding, dwelling, residing, inhabiting.
n. Inhabitant, dweller, resider.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Abiding, dwelling, residing, inhabiting
ANT:Migrating, moving
SYN:Occupant, dweller, tenant, sojourner, inhabitant
ANT:Stranger, foreigner, visitor
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Unable to leave.
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Examples
- Mr. Jonas Oldacre is a well known resident of that suburb, where he has carried on his business as a builder for many years. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He knew where every elevator shaft and boiler and fire-wall was, and also how much gas each resident used and what he paid for it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Such were the singular circumstances in connection with the Resident Patient and the Brook Street Doctor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He came himself to live with me in the character of a resident patient. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You have been resident in my house three months? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He is not resident, then? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It's good to have resident members. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This unexpected absence of the only local resident whom Eustacia knew considerably damaged her scheme for an afternoon of reckless gaiety. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Say he became a resident turnkey. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The present baronet, a young man hitherto resident in a distant province, was unknown on his Yorkshire estate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am an old resident in this neighbourhood, sir, and I never heard of a Mrs. Rochester at Thornfield Hall. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- According to it, education is neither a process of unfolding from within nor is it a training of faculties resident in mind itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In this church, also, is a monument to the doge Foscari, whose name a once resident of Venice, Lord Byron, has made permanently famous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs. Fairfax said he seldom stayed here longer than a fortnight at a time; and he has now been resident eight weeks. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At this time a resident of Salem, Thomas Sanders, engaged the young teacher to train his small deaf-mute son, and asked him to make his home at Sanders’ house in Salem. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They are all residents of Cincinnati. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Some of the residents are engaged in local business; some are occupied in farming and grape culture; others are employed in the iron-works near-by, at Norwalk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some few of us were not regular residents in the country. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Hundreds of English residents returned to their own country. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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