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adjective

Resident adj.

Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.

Fixed; stable; certain. (Obs.) "Stable and resident like a rock." "One there still resident as day and night."

noun

Resident n.

One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.

A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Resident" Quotes from Famous Books

... this time it has a handsome railway station, where the drowsy London traveller may look out by the brilliant gas-light and see perfectly sober papas and husbands alighting with their leatherbags after transacting their day's business at the county town. There is a resident rector, who appeals to the consciences of his hearers with all the immense advantages of a divine who keeps his own carriage; the church is enlarged by at least five hundred sittings; and the grammar school, conducted on reformed principles, has its upper forms ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... he had been a resident of Hampton Roads just fifteen minutes, and that, having had a pretty good view of the place, he was then making his way out of the door to Charleston, without any breakfast, because there was no room in ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... length, finding a coadjutor in Mr Thomas Pringle, he explained their united proposal to his friend, Mr Blackwood, the publisher, who highly approved of the design. Preliminaries were arranged, and the afterwards celebrated Blackwood's Magazine took its origin. Hogg was now resident at Altrive, and the editorship was entrusted to Pringle and his literary friend Cleghorn. The vessel had scarcely been well launched, however, on the ocean of letters, when storms arose a-head; hot disputes occurred between the publisher and ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... so often visited by those who describe better than myself, that I have thought it unnecessary to mention public buildings, or any thing equally obvious to the traveller or the resident. The beauty and elegance of the cathedral have been celebrated for ages, and I only remind you of it to indulge my national vanity in the reflection that one of the most splendid monuments of Gothic architecture in France is the work of our English ...

— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady

... which we set our hands and seals, and then departed from the office somewhat impressed. It is characteristic of our Intelligence Department that on leaving the office I was greeted by a Kimberley resident with the remark—"Well, I hear that Mahon is going to make a dash for Mafeking on Friday via ...

— The Relief of Mafeking • Filson Young

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