Residence

Definition: Residence

Residence

Noun

1. The address where a person lives; "it is his legal place of residence".

2. The official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); "he refused to live in the governor's residence".

3. The act of dwelling in a place.

4. A large and imposing house.

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Date "residence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

19th Century Satire

Law

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Residence

Abode

Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,

Crosswords: Residence

Italian (residence, residency).

The Drax residence. Every stone brought from France (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area (The Fugitive; writing credit: Jeb Stuart, David Twohy)

Here we are, number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, residence of George Banks Esq. (Mary Poppins; writing credit: P.L. Travers; Bill Walsh)

The Bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking (Keeping Up Appearances; writing credit: Roy Clarke)

Malli - artist in residence (1993)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Private journal [of Aaron Burr, during his residence of four years in Europe; with selections from his correspondence (reference)

• Cabool : being a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city in the years 1836, 7, and 8 (reference)

• Cabool: Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey To, and Residence in That City (reference)

• From Goring House to Buckingham Palace : our royal residence from the earliest times and the famous people connected with it (reference)

• Ritter in Residence (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Fall Residence (reference)

• Residence Trends (reference)

• Spring Residence (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1) A temporary administration building for M.D. Anderson was set up in 1940 in this converted residence known as "the oaks" on the former Baker Estate near downtown Houston. 2) biochemistry and biology laboratories were set up in late 1942 by five scientists using this one-time stable and carriage house on the old Baker Estate. The first patients were seen in other converted residential quarters starting in March, 1944. 3) the permanent home for University of Texas M.D. Anderson hospital began taking shape in the early 1950s in the newly designated Texas Medical Center, which only a few years earlier had been "way out in the woods". 4) M.D. Anderson's first seven-story structure was opened for patient care on March 19, 1954. This initial building contained 310 beds, which were phased into use over a five-year period, along with facilities for cancer research and educational activities. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Table showing AIDS Cases by Region and Size of Place of Residence Reported in 1996, United States. Credit: CDC.

Local residence. Credit: Small World.

Plantation manager's residence. Credit: Small World.

Fort Belknap Hospital, Harlem, Mont. : Exterior view- Hospital building, Nurses Home and Doctor's residence. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Indian Hospital, Sante Fe, New Mexico : Typical single room in nurses' residence. / Kyllingstad. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Japanese and foreign naval officers attend a luncheon party at the Official Residence of the Minister of the Navy, Tokyo, Japan, 7 June 1934, at the time of Admiral Togo's funeral. Photographed by the Niimiyakwan Photo Studio. Those present are listed in Photo # 58312 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY.

At the Foreign Minister's official residence, in Tokyo, during Astoria's visit to Japan in April 1939. She had brought home the ashes of the Late Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Hiroshi Saito, who died in Washington, D.C., on 26 February 1939. Halftone reproduction, published in the "Japan Times Weekly", Tokyo, 20 April 1939, page 569. Credit: NAVY.

Official residence ("Executive Mansion") for Mary Newton Foote Henderson, 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Perspective rendering] / Paul J. Pelz, architect ; Jules T. Crow, del. Credit: Library of Congress.

Walker residence. Front. Perspective projection. Rendering. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Persons who have exercised the above right to opt must within the ensuing twelve months transfer their place of residence to Germany. (reference)

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The pain of his continued residence in Highbury, however, must certainly be lessened by his marriage

The day on which he took up his residence in the hospital building, he resolved to appropriate this sum once for all to the following uses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A. The map below that shows reported cases of human plague between 1970-1997 by patient's county of residence. (references)

A. Click on the map at right that shows reported cases of Lyme disease in 1999 by patient's county of residence. (references)

This DNA degradation may have evolved as a defense against viruses that attempt to establish residence within cells. (references)

Business

Visas, residence permits, and work permits are required of all foreigners in the UAE. (references)

The most popular summer residence location is in the province of Bodrum, on the Aegean coast. (references)

The latest information indicates that by June 2001, all expatriates residing in Saudi Arabia need to be medically covered, and that any newcomer should have medical insurance before a residence permit is issued. (references)

Children

Argentina

Of these, 93 percent lived with their families and 7 percent were "street children." Of the children living with their families, 25.6 percent had no fixed residence. (references)

Sierra Leone

Legal requirements for naturalization, such as continuous residence in the country for 15 years or the past 12 months and 15 of the previous 20 years, effectively deny citizenship to many long-term residents, notably the Lebanese community. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belgium

Successful applicants were to be granted legal residence status. (references)

Discrimination

Oman

The 1996 Basic Charter prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, ethnic origin, race, religion, language, sect, place of residence, and social class; however, decrees to implement its provisions have not been promulgated. (references)

Pakistan

The suspended Constitution provided for equality before the law for all citizens and broadly prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, caste, residence, or place of birth; however, in practice there is significant discrimination based on these factors. (references)

Kazakhstan

No one may be subjected to any discrimination for reasons of origin, social position, occupation, property status, sex, race, nationality, language, attitude to religion, convictions, place of residence, or any other circumstances;" however, the Government does not enforce this provision effectively on a consistent basis. (references)

Economic History

Russia

Russia does require visas and residence permits for investors. (references)

Croatia

Residence and work permits are required for foreign employees. (references)

Ecuador

Visa and residence requirements do not inhibit foreign investment. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

Security officers searched his residence and confiscated 39 papers. (references)

Liberia

On November 30, ATU members forcibly entered and looted a private residence in Monrovia. (references)

Ethiopia

After registration applicants received identity cards and residence permits valid for 6 months. (references)

Minorities

Iceland

New work and residence permits were issued at a rate of approximately 150 per month during the year. (references)

Cyprus

Both Greek Cypriots and Maronites living in the north are unable to change their place of residence at will. (references)

Indonesia

An undetermined number of Sino-Indonesians remain abroad or away from their normal places of residence in the country. (references)

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

From 2001, South Africa has moved to a residence based income tax system. (references)

Sierra Leone

RUF leader Foday Sankoh, arrested in 2000 after demonstrators were killed outside of his residence, remained in government custody at year's end. (references)

KUWAIT

Foreign nationals must obtain a Kuwaiti sponsor to obtain a residence permit, and cannot change employment without permission of the original sponsors. (references)

Trade

Armenia

Persons arriving in Armenia for permanent residence can import their belongings duty free. (references)

Ghana

All foreign employees of businesses established under the program will require work and residence permits. (references)

Bolivia

No special work visas or professional certifications are required if the residence will not exceed three months. (references)

Travel

Honduras

The residence card must be renewed every year. (references)

Austria

Non-EU citizens will require a residence permit for longer stays. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

They are issued by the Sureté Nationale and can be obtained with a copy of a residence permit. (references)

Women

Jordan

The husbands themselves must apply for citizenship after fulfilling a requirement of 15 years of continuous residence. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

The amendment also prohibited any employer from dismissing an employee during that person's first 6 months of residence in a shelter. (references)

Fiji

Under the Constitution, male and female citizens enjoy equal rights in regard to the granting of residence for spouses, and registering and racially designating children in regard to electoral rolls and ethnic communal property. (references)

Worker Rights

Netherlands

In special circumstances, residence permits are granted on humanitarian grounds. (references)

China

He now lives with his family under heavy guard in his residence near the monastery. (references)

Italy

The immigration law provides temporary residence and work permits to victims who seek to escape their traffickers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "residence": be in residence ♦ country of residence ♦ dual residence ♦ employed persons by place of residence ♦ habitual residence ♦ hall of residence ♦ make up one's residence in the country ♦ municipality of residence ♦ normal residence ♦ notification of change of residence ♦ official residence ♦ place of residence ♦ religious residence ♦ Residence Characteristics ♦ residence hall ♦ residence of households and individuals ♦ residence permit ♦ residence time ♦ State of residence ♦ student residence ♦ summer residence ♦ take up one's residence ♦ the president's official residence ♦ usual residence. Additional references.

Beginning with "residence": residence-based, residence-cum-bunker, residence-pattern.

Ending with "residence": artist-in-residence, artists-in-residence, co-residence, non-residence.

Containing "residence": half-residence time.

Afrikaans

woning (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Albanian

vendbanim (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, locality, place, plantation, settlement), shtëpi (abode, chalet, fire side, habitation, hearth, hearthstone, home, house, household, place, property, roof, shebang), banim (digging, diggings, habitation, inhabitancy, inhabitation), banesë (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, home, house, inhabitation, living quarters, lodging, place, quarters, shebang). (various references)

Arabic 

بيئة (environment), ‏منزل (apartment, domicile, dwelling, flat, home, house, place), ‏مقر (office, own, seat), ‏مسكن سكن (dwelling house, housing), ‏مسكن (abode, anodyne, apartment, assuasive, demulcent, easing, habitation, home, house, lenitive, lodging, palliative, quarters, relieving, sedative, soothing), ‏مجموعة مساكن, ‏قصر ضيافة, ‏سكن جامعي, ‏سكن (alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, calm, cool, dwell, dwelling, dwelt, ease, fall, gentle, habitation, hostel, house, hut, kill, live, lodging, lull, occupy, pacify, palliate, place, qualify, quarters, quiet, quieten, remit, repose, salve, set together, settle, solace, soothe, stay, still, supple, tenant), ‏إقامة جبرية (house arrest), ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlor, parlour, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind), ‏بيت (hearth, home, house, penates). (various references)

Bulgarian 

седалище (domicile, habitation, nates, seat), резиденция (domicile, seat), голяма къща (hall), голям дом, местожителство (address, domicile, inhabitation), живеене (habitation, living), жилище (abode, dwelling, dwelling place, habitation, home, house, housing, inhabitation, lodging, place, quarters, shebang, shop), престой (abidance, continuance, dead time, downtime, idle time, lay over, outage, stay, stopover), пребиваване (abidance, stay). (various references)

Chinese 

舍 (to abandon, to give up), 住所 (lodging, lodgings), 住宅 (tenement), 宅 , 居所 , 寓 (reside). (various references)

Czech

rezidence, sídlo (place, residency, seat), dùm (building, home, house, place), byt (apartment, flat, home, lodgings, rooms), bydlištì (abode, domicile, dwelling place, place, place of residence). (various references)

Danish

bopæl (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence), bolig (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Dutch

woonplaats (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence), woning (abode, accommodation, dwelling), onderkomen (abode, accommodation, dwelling, lodging), logies (abode, accommodation, dwelling, places to stay), kwartier (abode, accommodation, dwelling, phase, quarter of an hour, stage), domicilie (abode, dwelling-place). (various references)

Esperanto

loĝloko (abode, dwelling place, dwelling-place), loĝejo (abode, accommodation, dwelling), domicilo (abode, dwelling place, dwelling-place). (various references)

Faeroese

bústaður (abode, accommodation, address, dwelling, dwelling-place), íbúð (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Farsi 

محل اقامت (Domicile, Residency, Seat), اقامتگاه (Domicile, Quarter, Residency). (various references)

Finnish

asunto (accommodation, dwelling, home, living quarters, lodgings), asuinpaikkakunta (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence), asuinpaikka (abode, domicile, place of residence). (various references)

French

domicile (place of residence), résidence (place of residence), habitation, demeure. (various references)

Frisian

wente (abode, accommodation, dwelling), went (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

German

Wohnsitz (abode, domicile, dwelling-place, place of abode), Wohnung (abode, accommodation, apartment, apartmentUS, dwelling, flat, habitation, lodging, place, property, tenement), Wohnort (abode, domicile, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, living room, place od residence, place of residence), Wohnhaus (abode, accommodation, dwelling, residential building, residential house, tenement), Residenz (residency, royal capital, royal seat). (various references)

Greek 

κατοικία (abode, domicile, dwelling, habitat, habitation, home, house, residency, seat), διαμονή (abode, domicile, residency, stay, staying). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקום מושב (domicile), מקום מגורים (by, domicile, dwelling place), מעון (dwelling, habitation, haunt, home, house, housing), מעונה (afflicted, den, habitation, lair, ortured, stricken), מגורים (abode, dwelling, habitation, quarters, sojourning), ישיבה (abidance, dwelling, occupation, settlement, sitting). (various references)

Hungarian

tartózkodási hely (abode, dwelling place, habitat, habitation, haunt, residency, sojourn), tartózkodás (abidance, abstention, abstinence, aloofness, being, constraint, coyness, discretion, dwell, dwelling, residency, restraint, reticence, self-restraint, shyness, sojourn, standoff, stay, staying, stopover), rezidencia (palace, residency, villa), lakóhely (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling space, habitation, home, house, living quarters), kastély (big house, Castle, hall, mansion, residency). (various references)

Icelandic

bústaður (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Indonesian

tempat tinggal (abode, domicile, dwelling, habitat), padepokan. (various references)

Irish

cónaí (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Italian

residenza (abode, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, place of residence, residency, stay), appartamento (abode, accommodation, apartment, dwelling, flat, lodging, suite, tenement), alloggio (abode, accommodation, accommodation house, accomodation, apartment, billet, dwelling, flat, housing, lodging, lodging place, quarter, quarters, rest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

駐在 (stay), 邸宅 (mansion), 住所 (address, domicile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すまい (address, dwelling, house), すみどころ (address, domicile), すみか (den, dwelling, house), レジデンス , しゃたく (company owned house), きょりゅう (reside), きょじゅうち (address), きょじゅう (large animal), じゅうしょ (address, domicile), じゅうきょ (address, dwelling, house), じゅうか (arms rack, den, dwelling, encumbrance, gunfire, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy punishment, heavy responsibility, house, load, rifle stand, serious crime), ていたく (mansion), ちゅうざい (stay). (various references)

Korean 

거주 (Abode, HABIT, Inhabiting, locator, Residing). (various references)

Manx

ynnyd veaghee (abode, mansion), cummal (abode, arrest, celebrate, celebration, contain, containment, contents, dwelling place, grip, hold, inhabit, keep, live, retain), chagh (abode, hiding place), aarys. (various references)

Norwegian

bolig (abode, accommodation, dwelling, habitation, housing). (various references)

Papiamen

kas (abode, accommodation, dwelling, house). (various references)

Pig Latin

esidenceray.(various references)

Polish

mieszkanie (abode, accommodation, dwelling). (various references)

Portuguese

residência (bower, dwelling-place, residency, settlement), morada (abode, accommodation, dwelling-place, lodging, residency), habitação (abode, accommodation, bower, dwelling-place, habitation, house, nest, occupancy, residency), domicílio (abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling-place, residency). (various references)

Romanian

reşedinţã (abode, court, domicile, habitation, inhabitation, residency, seat), sediment (deposit, Grout, remanent, residue, sediment, tailing), locuinţã (abode, accommodations, apartment, digging, dwelling, home, homestead, house, housing, inhabitation, living, Lodge, lodging, lodgment, place, rooms, tenement, whereabouts), domiciliu (abode, domicile, dwelling place, home, house, inhabitation, living, residency), şedere (abidance at, halt, indwelling, repair, sitting, sojurn, stay), adresã (address, communication, destination, direction). (various references)

Russian 

резиденция (residency). (various references)

Scottish

dachaidh (a home, domicile;, home). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rezidencija (mansion, residency), stanište (domicile, habitat, haft, lair, lodgement, lodgment), stan (apartment, diggings, housing, lodging, pad, place, rooms), prebivalište (abode, domicile, indwelling), boravište (abode, inhabitancy, inn, whereabouts). (various references)

Spanish

residencia (existence, hall, home, hostel, palace, residency), domicilio (abode, address, domicile, dwelling-place, dwelling-place-residence, home, permanent address, place of residence, quarters, residency, settlement, settling). (various references)

Swedish

bostad (abode, accommodation, diggings, domicile, dwelling, dwelling place, flat, habitation, home, housing, lodgings, place, quarters), vistelseort (domicile, haunt, whereabouts), säte (bench, buttocks, nates, seat, seating), residens (residency). (various references)

Turkish

oturma (fit, habitation, inhabitation, living, occupancy, occupation, sitting, stay, staying), mesken (domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, house, messuage), konut (abode, condo, domicil, domicile, dwelling, habitation, house, housing, quarters), konak (court, dandriff, dandruff, hall, halting place, inn, mansion, residency, road house, scurf, Villa), ikametgâh (abode, domicil, domicile, inhabitation, place of residence, quarters), ikâmet, işyerinde yatıp kalkma, ev (accommodation unit, crib, domestic, domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, home, house, household, housing, inhabitation, place, rooms, settlement). (various references)

Ukrainian

резиденція (palace, residency), місцеперебування (abiding place, abode, come from, fix, locality, occurrence, position, residency), проживання (abidance, residency). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trú ngụ chỗ ở, sự cư trú, sự ở (domiciliation, dwelling, habitation, inhabitance, inhabitancy, inhabitation), nhà ở dinh thự, nơi cư trú (inhabitation). (various references)

Welsh

hafoty (summer residence). (various references)

atrium, commoratio, commoratione, commorationibus, domicilium, domus, habitacula, habitaculi, habitaculis, habitaculo, habitaculum, habitatio, habitatione, habitationem, habitationes, habitationibus, habitationis, regia, regiae, regiam, regiarum, regiis, sede, sedechiae, sedechias, sedeciam, sedecias, sedei, sedem, sedes, sedi, sedibus, sedis, sedium, sedum. (various references)

maêthananãmca, upa-maitîm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "residence": residences. (additional references)

Words ending with "residence": nonresidence. (additional references)

Words containing "residence": nonresidences. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Residence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desidence, resedence, Residencia, residense, residnce, resilence. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: nereides, redenies, screened, secerned.

-2 letters: cinders, decerns, decrees, decries, deicers, deniers, discern, eserine, needers, needier, nereids, recedes, rescind, resined, seceder, seedier, sincere, sneered.

-3 letters: ceders, censed, censer, cerise, ciders, cinder, creeds, creese, decern, decree, deicer, deices, denier, denies, denser, desire, dicers, dienes, diners, edenic, eiders, enders, needer, nereid, nereis, nieces, recede, reined, reseed.

+1 letter: decenaries, intercedes, relicensed, residences.

+2 letters: differences, divergences, interceders, intersected, iridescence, reinspected, residencies, unexercised.

+3 letters: advertencies, degeneracies, deliverances, detergencies, directedness, directnesses, discreetness, discreteness, disseverance, divergencies, iridescences, nonresidence, precedencies, predeceasing, presidencies, rechristened, reconsidered.

+4 letters: aeromedicines, candleberries, confederacies, decelerations, decentralizes, decipherments, denuclearizes, determinacies, disencumbered, disseverances, inadvertences, indifferences, nonresidences, reconditeness, reductiveness, superinfected, underachieves.

+5 letters: creditableness, decerebrations, decorativeness, directednesses, discreetnesses, discretenesses, handkerchieves, inadvertencies, incredibleness, indifferencies, indirectnesses, indiscreetness, intermediacies, nonresidencies, resplendencies, underachievers.