Definition of "residence"

residence

/ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural residences
1. The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
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  Johnson took up his residence in London.
  1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson ”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871
2. A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
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  The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87
5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. The place where anything rests permanently.
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  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.
  1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […]
7. subsidence, as of a sediment
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  Separation […] is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
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  waters of a muddy residence
  1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason
9. (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

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