resident
Academic Word List, sublist 2.
About 12.06 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
- noun A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- noun A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
- noun A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
- noun A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
- noun Alternative form of rezident.
- adjective 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
- adjective Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Similar words
occupier occupant nonmigratory house physician resident physician habitation residency inhabitant domiciled home
Often followed by
of in at and population or aliens to on
Word family
reside resided residence residential residents resides residing
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