residences

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

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