residence

Noun

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

1. The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
   • 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...
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.
   • 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.
   • 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, […], →OCLC
7. Subsidence, as of a sediment
   • Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
   • waters of a muddy residence1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason
9. Synonym of rezidentura.

   Synonyms:

   rezidentura