RESIDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resident mean? 

• RESIDENT (noun)
  The noun RESIDENT has 2 senses:

1. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

2. a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

  Familiarity information: RESIDENT used as a noun is rare.

• RESIDENT (adjective)
  The adjective RESIDENT has 2 senses:

1. living in a particular place

2. used of animals that do not migrate

  Familiarity information: RESIDENT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

occupant; occupier; resident

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

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

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

Alexandrian (a resident or native of Alexandria (especially Alexandria in Egypt))

coaster (a resident of a coastal area)

colonial (a resident of a colony)

dalesman (a person who lives in the dales of northern England)

housemate (someone who resides in the same house with you)

inmate (one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital))

metropolitan (a person who lives in a metropolis)

outlier (a person who lives away from his place of work)

owner-occupier (an occupant who owns the home that he/she lives in)

sojourner (a temporary resident)

stater (a resident of a particular state or group of states)

suburbanite (a resident of a suburb)

tenant (any occupant who dwells in a place)

towner; townsman (a resident of a town or city)

Antonym:

nonresident (someone who does not live in a particular place)

Derivation:

reside (live (in a certain place))

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

resident (living in a particular place)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

house physician; resident; resident physician

Context example:

the resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital

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

doc; doctor; Dr.; MD; medico; physician (a licensed medical practitioner)

• RESIDENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Living in a particular place

Context example:

resident aliens

Antonym:

nonresident (not living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents)

Derivation:

reside (live (in a certain place))

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

residence; residency (the act of dwelling in a place)

resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Used of animals that do not migrate

Synonyms:

nonmigratory; resident

Derivation:

residency (the act of dwelling in a place)

 Context examples 

It must have been the case, then, that the man in the waiting-room had, for some unknown reason, while I was busy with the other, ascended to the room of my resident patient.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have been resident in my house three months?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This allele, which encodes homocysteine-responsive endoplasmic reticulum-resident ubiquitin-like domain member 1 protein, plays a role in the unfolded protein response.

(HERPUD1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mars has received its newest robotic resident.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Numbers of affected residents fear to return home due to the series of aftershocks.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

Mr. Culverton Smith is a well-known resident of Sumatra, now visiting London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have no conception whom you can mean, Shepherd; I remember no gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Staff members are encouraged to develop relationships with residents.

(Nursing Homes, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative to males, according to a recent study by Georgia State University researchers.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Sargasso Sea is located on the western edge of the central Atlantic Ocean and named after its popular algal resident.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)