residence

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/

Definition of residence

9 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
    “Johnson took up his residence in London.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
    “Johnson took up his residence in London.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
  3. (countable, uncountable)The place where a corporation is established.
  4. (countable, uncountable)The state of living in a particular place or environment.
    “The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.”
  5. (countable, uncountable)Accommodation for students at a university or college.
  6. (countable, uncountable)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.”
  7. (countable, uncountable)Subsidence, as of a sediment
    “Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.”
  8. (countable, uncountable)That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    “waters of a muddy residence”
  9. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of rezidentura.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence.

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