Resident

Quick meaning: Resident is a noun meaning A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

Meaning

A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

More Meanings

1. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
2. (medicine) A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.
3. (diplomacy) A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
4. (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
5. (espionage) Alternative form of rezident.
6. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
7. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

Example Sentences

He is our resident computer expert.

resident in the city or in the country

She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

The acorns are more slender and pointed than the other and this tree is a resident of foothills all around the great valley up to elevations of about 3500 feet.

Word Forms

• residents

Synonyms for resident

Depending on context, synonyms include occupant, nonmigratory, occupier.

Antonyms for resident

Common opposites include nonresident, migratory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include occupier, occupant, nonmigratory, habitation, residency, inhabitant.

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