resident
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1. resident - Noun
2. resident - Adjective
Meaning
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.
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In 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.
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.
Resident mockery give us an hour for magic.
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.
The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.