Definitions for resident
ˈrɛz ɪ dəntres·i·dent

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. resident, occupant, occupier(noun)

   someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

2. house physician, resident, resident physician(adj)

   a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

   "the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital"

3. resident(adj)

   living in a particular place

   "resident aliens"

4. nonmigratory, resident(adj)

   used of animals that do not migrate

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. resident(Noun)

   person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area

2. resident(Noun)

   a bird which does not migrate during the course of the year

3. resident(Noun)

   a graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty

4. resident(Adjective)

   the person on hand who is the strongest in a particular skill or profession

   He is our resident UNIX expert.

5. resident(Adjective)

   a student in the medical profession who watches a licensed doctor in order to learn a skill

   For privacy reasons, she requested the resident nurse to leave.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Resident(adj)

   dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country

2. Resident(adj)

   fixed; stable; certain

3. Resident(noun)

   one who resides or dwells in a place for some time

4. Resident(noun)

   a diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4

Origin: [F. rsident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Resident

   A Resident, or in full Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. A representative of his government, he officially has diplomatic functions which are often seen as a form of indirect rule.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. resident

   A British subject residing in an enemy's country may trade generally with the natives, but not in contraband.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'resident' in Nouns Frequency: #1041

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'resident' in Adjectives Frequency: #919

Anagrams for resident »

1. Dniester, inserted, nerdiest, sintered, tendries, trendies

How to pronounce resident?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of resident in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of resident in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of resident in a Sentence

1. Erin Fougères:

   They won't typically leave their resident area.

2. John Gearson:

   The fact that he appears like a relatively ordinary young British resident is disquieting.

3. Richard Leakey:

   We can't say to the Nairobi resident: 'You have to sit in a traffic jam for the rest of your life,'.

4. Eugene Kung:

   The fix was in from the start, this project amounts to a death sentence for the South Resident orcas.

5. Marc Edwards:

   From every single scientific perspective, the more water a resident uses, the better the water is going to be.

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