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.]

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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.

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

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

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. John Gearson:

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

2. Richard Leakey:

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

3. Marc Edwards:

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

4. President Obama:

   People should be gathering up their papers, make sure you can show you are a long standing resident of the United States.

5. Orca Network:

   We cannot express how tragic this loss is for the struggling, precariously small family of resident orcas in the Salish Sea.

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