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Resident vs Abode - What's the difference?

resident | abode |

In obsolete terms the difference between resident and abode

is that resident is fixed; stable; certain while abode is an omen; a foretelling.

As nouns the difference between resident and abode

is that resident is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area while abode is act of waiting; delay.

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.

As a verb abode is

past tense of abide.

resident

Noun

(en noun)
  • Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * permanent resident

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
  • resident in the city or in the country
  • Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
  • He is our resident computer expert.
  • (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • stable and resident like a rock
  • * Davenant
  • one there still resident as day and night

    Anagrams

    * ----

    abode

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) abod, abad, from (etyl) . For the change of vowel, compare ''abode'', preterit of ''abide .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Act of waiting; delay.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
  • Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And with her fled away without abode .
  • (obsolete) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  • * 1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
  • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • * (rfdate), (Henry Fielding) (1707-1754)
  • He waxeth at your abode here.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (formal) A residence, dwelling or habitation.
  • of no fixed abode .
  • * (rfdate), (William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
  • Come, let me lead you to our poore abode .
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abide)
  • Etymology 2

    * From an alteration with bode and (etyl) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An omen; a foretelling.
  • * High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes . -
  • Verb

    (abod)
  • (obsolete) To bode; to foreshow; to presage.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To be ominous.
  • Derived terms
    * abodement * aboding

    See also

    * dwelling

    References