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resident
[ rez-i-duhnt ]
noun
- a person who resides in a place.
- a physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training usually in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises.
- a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court.
- (formerly) a representative of the British governor general at a court in India.
- (formerly) the governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies.
adjective
- residing; dwelling in a place.
- living or staying at a place in discharge of duty.
- (of qualities) existing; intrinsic.
- (of birds) not migratory.
- Computers.
- encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
- (of a computer program) currently active or standing by in computer memory.
resident
/ ˈɛɪəԳ /
noun
- a person who resides in a place
- social welfare an occupant of a welfare agency home Former nameinmate
- (esp formerly) a representative of the British government in a British protectorate
- (esp in the 17th century) a diplomatic representative ranking below an ambassador
- (in India, formerly) a representative of the British governor general at the court of a native prince
- a bird or other animal that does not migrate
- a physician who lives in the hospital where he or she works while undergoing specialist training after completing his or her internship Compare house physician
- a junior doctor, esp a house officer, who lives in the hospital in which he or she works
adjective
- living in a place; residing
- living or staying at a place in order to discharge a duty, etc
- (of qualities, characteristics, etc) existing or inherent (in)
- (of birds and other animals) not in the habit of migrating
Derived Forms
- ˈԳˌ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ··Գ· noun
- ····Գ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Bell, where five former council members and two city staffers were convicted in the mid-2010s of fleecing residents for decades.
Yet another speaker, Mid-City resident Devin Bennett, warned council members that they would be remembered for having “the blood of thousands of puppies and kittens” on their hands unless they stopped the cuts.
Incredibly isolated, their remote location has arguably helped forge a community bond between the residents.
Sakura season in Japan attracts millions of tourists a year - but a UK spa town's residents argue a 6,000-mile flight isn't required to witness spectacular blooms.
“We just put our home up for sale yesterday,” said Dwight James, a resident of Simi Valley, who is still making payments on a loan he took out to pay for his solar system.
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