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Residence vs Nonresident - What's the difference?

residence | nonresident |

As nouns the difference between residence and nonresident

is that residence is residence (place where one resides) while nonresident is one who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner.

As an adjective nonresident is

not resident; alien; foreign; not residing in the place in question.

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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    nonresident

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not resident; alien; foreign; not residing in the place in question
    • a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner