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. Former name: inmate. social welfare an occupant of a welfare agency home

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

Other Word Forms

• residentship noun
• pseudoresident 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

Full training can take a long time, meaning some resident doctors have more than a decade of practical experience and are responsible for many aspects of care.

From BBC

However, the artist failed to get the consent of the building's residents, who are objecting to the content of the piece, before arriving in a cherry picker to paint it on Thursday.

From BBC

One Windhoek resident who witnessed the party said it was "nothing short of disgraceful".

From BBC

Digital ID will be available to all UK citizens and legal residents, and mandatory in order to work.

From BBC

“No one knew who he was, and he never said who he was,” said Hernandez, a Phoenix resident who grew up in East L.A. but spent time with Jaramillo in his later years.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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