residence

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 15.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
2. noun A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
3. noun The place where a corporation is established.
4. noun The state of living in a particular place or environment.
5. noun Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. noun The place where anything rests permanently.
7. noun Subsidence, as of a sediment
8. noun That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

Similar words

residency mansion hall abidance abode manse mansion house dwelling residential domicile

Often followed by

in of at and time for is was on

Word family

reside resided residences resident residential residents resides residing take up residence taken up residence