res
noun
an object or thing; matter.
res
1 American
[reez, rays]
/ riz, reɪs /
noun
Chiefly Law.
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res
plural
RES
2
American
abbreviation
Immunology.
res.
3
American
abbreviation
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research.
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reserve.
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residence.
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resident; residents.
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resigned.
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resolution.
res.
1
British
abbreviation
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residence
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resides
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resigned
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resolution
res
2
British
/ reɪs /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of res
First recorded in 1850–55, res is from the Latin word rēs
Example Sentences
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We meet Mona in media res, nervously tapping her shoes on the carpeted lobby floor and fretting over her audition.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
We begin in medias res as the unnamed author frets about his choice to begin at chapter 13 rather than the more traditional chapter 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The law deems them res nullius, which literally means a thing belonging to nobody - so responsibility falls to individual landowners.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Don’t miss some returning favorites, such as the barbacoa tamal de res, in which the beef is pleasantly tender, or the braised pork belly adobo, one of the heartier dishes at the festival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
I tell ’em yo’ don’t mind dem comin’ in t’ res’.
From Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson
“Dam removal is kind of messy business,” said Dave Coffman, manager of the restoration program for the contractor Resource Environmental Solutions, or RES.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
He identified the kindergarten as the RES Kids Paradise, a place he knew because his own children once attended it, he said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
Owner and Chairman Bill Riss sold his majority interest in the company to US RES Holdco LLC, an affiliate of Houston-based title insurance company Stewart Information Services, Coldwell Banker Bain announced Tuesday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
By 2025, per the original RES, 25 percent of their power was supposed to come from sources like wind, solar and clean coal production.
From Salon ● May 29, 2014
Unlike Imperial forces, the RES has very few women, and at this point only two are officers.
From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson
Pennsylvania Troops, 10th res. infantry; 51st; 8th Cavalry; Bat.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
Magilton, Albert L., colonel 4th Pennsylvania res. commanding brigade at Antietam.
From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox
Clara Bewick, 6; res. against creeds and dogmas, 58;sp. on same, 59;plan of work, 62;wom. suff. and labor question, 70;on the church, 76;describes campn. in Neb.,
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
Schools, Fed. of, adopts wom. suff. res. and petits.,
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
A play always begins in medias res. c.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
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