Noun
The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
Subsidence, as of a sediment.
That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood. Christian Morgenstern
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love. Emily Dickinson
Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties. Douglas Coupland
I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work. Cory Doctorow
Our interests require that Egypt should remain what it is, an integral part of the Turkish empire. We do not want it or wish it for ourselves, any more than any rational man with an estate in the North of England and a residence in the South would have wished to possess the inns on the North Road. Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston