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Residence vs Coresidence - What's the difference?

residence | coresidence |

As nouns the difference between residence and coresidence

is that residence is residence (place where one resides) while coresidence is (anthropology) living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.

residence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
    • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
    • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Related terms

    * reside * residency * resident * residential

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    coresidence

    English

    Noun

  • (anthropology) Living together, sharing a residence, as of an adult child with a parent.
  • * 1979 , Irving Goldman, The Cubeo: Indians of the Northwest Amazon , Second Edition, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-00770-5, pages 42–3:
    • The question of coresidence' is of special interest in the Northwest Amazon region because among tribes that do not have sibs but are organized on the basis of patrilocal families it is ' coresidence rather than kinship that has been reported to be the governor of exogamy (Kirchoff, 1931).