1. resident - Noun
2. resident - Adjective
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.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. Simon Newcomb
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. Edward Burnett Tylor
Resident mockery give us an hour for magic. Jim Morrison
As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. Lewis H. Lapham
The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation. J. G. Ballard
A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage. Truman Capote