resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Noun 4 meanings
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.
“She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.”
A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Adjective 3 meanings
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
“resident in the city or in the country”
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
“He is our resident computer expert.”
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Etymology
From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).
RESIDENT at a glance
RESIDENT has 8 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (R 1 + E 1 + S 1 + I 1 + D 2 + E 1 + N 1 + T 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,710 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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