Residence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The place in which one lives; a dwelling.
  • n. The act or a period of residing in a place.
  • n. A medical residency.
  • n. The official home or location of a corporation.
  • idiom. in residence Committed to live and work in a specific place, often for a certain length of time: an artist in residence at a college.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The place where one lives.
  • n. A building used as a home.
  • n. The place where a corporation is established.
  • n. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time.
  • n. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
  • n. The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
  • n. The place where anything rests permanently.
  • n. Subsidence, as of a sediment.
  • n. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of residing or dwelling in a place permanently or for a considerable time.
  • n. A place of residing or abode; especially, the place where a person resides; a dwelling; a habitation.
  • n. That in which anything permanently rests or inheres.
  • n. A remaining; or abiding where one's duties lie, or where one's occupation is properly carried on; ecclesiastical, the presence of a bishop in his diocese, a canon in his cathedral or collegiate church, or a rector or an incumbent in his benefice: opposed to non-residence.
  • n. In law:
  • n. The place where a man's habitation is fixed without any present intention of removing it therefrom; domicile.
  • n. An established abode, fixed for a considerable time, whether with or without a present intention of ultimate removal.
  • n. The settling or settlement of liquors; the process of clearing, as by the settling of sediment.
  • n. That which settles or is deposited, as the thick part of wine that has grown old in bottle.
  • n. Any residue or remnant.
  • n. Synonyms Domiciliation, inhabitancy, sojourn, stay.
  • n. Home, domicile, mansion. See abide.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
  • n. a large and imposing house
  • n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
  • n. the act of dwelling in a place
  • Cross Reference
    dwelling    abode    legal residence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    domicile    home    abode    stay    mansion    dwelling    habitation    domiciliation    sojourn    sediment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    presidents   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mansion    palace    apartment    building    dwelling    estate    abide    cottage    lodge    establishment