RESIDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residence mean? 

• RESIDENCE (noun)
  The noun RESIDENCE has 4 senses:

1. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

2. the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)

3. the act of dwelling in a place

4. a large and imposing house

  Familiarity information: RESIDENCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

abode; residence

Context example:

a person can have several residences

Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):

address (the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):

domicile; legal residence ((law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time)

home; place (where you live at a particular time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he refused to live in the governor's residence

Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):

court (the residence of a sovereign or nobleman)

deanery (the official residence of a dean)

manse (the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman))

palace (official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign))

parsonage; rectory; vicarage (an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector)

cloister; religious residence (residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery))

Instance hyponyms:

Vatican; Vatican Palace (the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City)

White House (the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States)

Mount Vernon (the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of dwelling in a place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

abidance; residence; residency

Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):

lodging (the act of lodging)

occupancy; tenancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)

Derivation:

reside (live (in a certain place))

reside (make one's home in a particular place or community)

resident (living in a particular place)

residential (of or relating to or connected with residence)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A large and imposing house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

hall; manse; mansion; mansion house; residence

Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

Meronyms (parts of "residence"):

hall; manor hall (the large room of a manor or castle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):

manor; manor house (the mansion of a lord or wealthy person)

castle; palace (a large and stately mansion)

stately home (a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family)

 Context examples 

As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, tree growth will continue to accelerate, but the length of time that trees store carbon, the so-called carbon residence time, will diminish.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

The air of a gentleman's residence, therefore, you cannot but give it, if you do anything.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The change in residence that I see possible for you could be because after you wed, you will want to start your married life together in a new apartment or house. Lovely!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had often passed it before, during my residence in that neighbourhood, though never when I could choose another road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But this he was to learn early in his residence in Santa Clara Valley.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"This, then, was his father's residence?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

May I know the names and residence of those friends?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Movement of residence from one place to another.

(Human Migration, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatment in which a oxygen is administered to an individual at their residence.

(Home Oxygen Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks to superintend the work upon the schooner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)