residence
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residence
- /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence. Doublet of residencia.
noun residences
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home. Johnson took up his residence in London.
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where anything rests permanently. But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. waters of a muddy residence
- Synonym of rezidentura.
