resident
IPA: rˈɛzɪdʌnt
noun
- A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
- A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- A physician receiving specialized medical training.
- (diplomacy) A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
- (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
- (espionage) Alternative form of rezident [(espionage) The head spy in a rezidentura.]
adjective
- Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
- Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
- (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
- (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
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Examples of "resident" in Sentences
- Most of the residents reside in semis.
- The last resident unwillingly left her home in 1980.
- The State House is the official residence of the president of the Gambia.
- Residents of the neighborhood uniformly refer to it as the Lower East Side.
- They are the residents who want new ideas to help invigorate city neighborhoods.
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