resident

[ rez-i-duhnt ]

noun

1. a person who resides in a place.
2. 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.
3. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court.
4. (formerly) a representative of the British governor general at a court in India.
5. (formerly) the governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies.

adjective

1. residing; dwelling in a place.
2. living or staying at a place in discharge of duty.
3. (of qualities) existing; intrinsic.
4. (of birds) not migratory.
5. Computers.
   1. encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
   2. (of a computer program) currently active or standing by in computer memory.

resident

/ ˈrɛzɪdənt /

noun

1. a person who resides in a place
2. social welfare an occupant of a welfare agency home Former nameinmate
3. (esp formerly) a representative of the British government in a British protectorate
4. (esp in the 17th century) a diplomatic representative ranking below an ambassador
5. (in India, formerly) a representative of the British governor general at the court of a native prince
6. a bird or other animal that does not migrate
7. 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
8. a junior doctor, esp a house officer, who lives in the hospital in which he or she works

adjective

1. living in a place; residing
2. living or staying at a place in order to discharge a duty, etc
3. (of qualities, characteristics, etc) existing or inherent (in)
4. (of birds and other animals) not in the habit of migrating

Derived Forms

• ˈresidentˌship, noun

Other Words From

• res·i·dent·ship noun
• pseu·do·res·i·dent adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of resident¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Middle French, from Latin resident- (stem of residēns ), present participle of residēre “to reside”; reside, -ent

Example Sentences

"Those people must come out because we have brothers there, we have sons there, the fathers of our kids are there, our children are struggling," local resident Emily Photsoa told AFP.

From BBC

“Those of us who sacrificed many years of their lives to live here now must be just fine with another group that is probably younger now being placed by the government into our community?” one San Fernando Valley resident wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

Set in a variety of sexy locations, some of them actually where they claim to be — including England, Turkey, Croatia, Estonia, Spain and Germany — it, too, is a serial-killer story in a way, though the resident psychopath, the Jackal, kills people for money rather than to gratify some bizarre psychosis.

From Los Angeles Times

Sylmar resident Alejandro Garcia Aranda was arrested in July on a three-count federal indictment for advertising and distributing more than 600 images and videos containing child pornography through his Instagram handle, “valleyhoezzz818,” which was created around May 2020.

From Los Angeles Times

Dapcevic said Trump’s election has forced him to begin thinking about moving to another country, which would mean leaving behind his mother, a permanent resident, and brother, a U.S. citizen.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• citizen
• dweller
• inhabitant
• inmate
• local
• native
• resident
• tenant