Residence or Resident - What's the difference?
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The place where one lives.
* Macaulay
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 place where anything rests permanently.
* Milton
subsidence, as of a sediment
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Davenant
Resident is a related term of residence.
As nouns the difference between residence and resident
is that residence is the place where one lives while resident is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area.As an adjective resident is
dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.residence
English
Noun
(en noun)- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- 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.
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Jeremy Taylor)
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English
(wikipedia resident)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permanent residentAdjective
(en adjective)- resident in the city or in the country
- He is our resident computer expert.
- stable and resident like a rock
- one there still resident as day and night
