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residents


noun

  1. a person who resides in a place.
  2. a physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training usually in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises.
  3. a diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court.
  4. (formerly) a representative of the British governor general at a native court in India.
  5. (formerly) the governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies.

adjective

  1. residing; dwelling in a place.
  2. living or staying at a place in discharge of duty.
  3. (of qualities) existing; intrinsic.
  4. (of birds) not migratory.
    1. encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer’s ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
    2. (of a computer program) currently active or standing by in computer memory.

noun

  1. a person who resides in a place
  2. social welfare an occupant of a welfare agency homeFormer name: inmate
  3. (esp formerly) a representative of the British government in a British protectorate
  4. (esp in the 17th century) a diplomatic representative ranking below an ambassador
  5. (in India, formerly) a representative of the British governor general at the court of a native prince
  6. a bird or other animal that does not migrate
  7. US and Canadian a physician who lives in the hospital where he or she works while undergoing specialist training after completing his or her internshipCompare house physician
  8. British and NZ a junior doctor, esp a house officer, who lives in the hospital in which he or she works

adjective

  1. living in a place; residing
  2. living or staying at a place in order to discharge a duty, etc
  3. (of qualities, characteristics, etc) existing or inherent (in)
  4. (of birds and other animals) not in the habit of migrating
n.

mid-15c., “an inhabitant, one who resides,” from resident (adj.). Meaning “medical graduate in practice in a hospital as training” first attested 1892, American English.

adj.

late 14c., “dwelling, residing,” from Old French resident and directly from Latin residentem (nominative residens), present participle of residere “to sit down, settle” (see reside).

n.

  1. A physician during residency.
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