Residing; having a seat or dwelling; dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continuance of time.Fixed; firm.In zoology:Remaining in a place the whole year; not migratory: said especially of birds.Pertaining to or consisting of residents: as, the resident fauna; a resident theory.Having one's abode in a given place in pursuit of one's duty or occupation: as, he is minister resident at that court.n. One who or that which resides or dwells in a place permanently or for a considerable time; one residing: as, the American residents of Paris.n. In law, one who has a residence in the legal sense. See residence.n. A public minister who resides at a foreign court: the name is usually given to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors.n. In zoology, an animal, or a species of animal, which remains in the same place throughout the year: distinguished from migrant or visitant: said especially of birds.n. In feudal law, a tenant who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from it.n. In India:n. Previous to the organization of the civil service, a chief of one of the commercial establishments of the East India Company.n. Later, a representative of the viceroy at an important native court, as at Lucknow or Delhi.n. The governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies.