resident

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin residēns, past participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzɪd(ə)nt/

Noun

resident (plural residents)

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   The tiger lily is a resident of Asia.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
3. A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.

   She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

4. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. (law) a legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.

Adjective

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

1. 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

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   He is our resident computer expert.

3. (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
   • Jeremy Taylor

     stable and resident like a rock

   • Davenant

     one there still resident as day and night

4. (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.

Further reading

• resident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• resident in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• resident at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Dniester, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies

Noun

resident m (plural residents, feminine residenta)

1. resident

Noun

resident m (plural residenc)

1. resident

Verb

resident

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resideō

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin residentem, accusative singular of residēns, from the verb resideō.

Adjective

resident m (oblique and nominative feminine singular resident or residente)

1. resident; residing

References

• resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub