Resident

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Resident \Res"i*dent\, n.
     1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
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     2. 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Resident \Res"i*dent\ (-dent), a. [F. r['e]sident, L. residens,
     -entis, p. pr. of residere. See {Reside}.]
     1. 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.
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     2. Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] "Stable and resident like a
        rock." --Jer. TAylor.
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              One there still resident as day and night.
                                                    --Davenant.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  resident
       adj 1: living in a particular place; "resident aliens" [ant: {nonresident}]
       2: used of animals that do not migrate [syn: {nonmigratory}]
          [ant: {migratory}]
       n 1: someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged
            period or who was born there [syn: {occupant}, {occupier}]
       2: a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital
          and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision
          of the medical staff of the hospital; "the resident was
          receiving special clinical training at the hospital" [syn:
           {house physician}, {resident physician}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "resident":
     Doctor of Medicine, GP, MD, abiding, addressee, allopath,
     allopathist, ambassador, ambassadress, apostolic delegate,
     artist-in-residence, attache, attending physician, benefice-holder,
     beneficiary, career diplomat, chancellor, charge, citizen,
     commercial attache, commorant, consul, consul general,
     consular agent, coroner, country doctor, croaker, deep-seated,
     denizen, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatic agent, diplomatist,
     district, doc, doctor, dweller, dwelling, emissary, envoy,
     envoy extraordinary, esoteric, family doctor,
     foreign service officer, general practitioner, habitant, hirer,
     homesteader, house detective, house physician, householder,
     immanent, implanted, implicit, in residence, inalienable,
     incumbent, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inhabitant, inhabiter,
     inherent, inmate, inner, inpatient, intern, internal, internuncio,
     intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, leaseholder, leech,
     legate, lessee, live-in maid, liver, living, living in, local,
     locum tenens, lodger, lodging, medical attendant, medical examiner,
     medical man, medical practitioner, medico, military attache,
     minister, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, nuncio,
     occupant, occupier, paying guest, physician, physician in ordinary,
     plenipotentiary, private, regional, remaining, renter, residencer,
     resident physician, residentiary, resider, residing, roomer,
     sawbones, secret, secretary of legation, sojourner, squatter,
     staying, subjective, sublessee, subtenant, tenant,
     tenant at sufferance, tenant for life, unalienable,
     unchallengeable, underlessee, unquestionable, vice-consul,
     vice-legate
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESIDENT, international law. A minister, according to diplomatic language, 
  of a third order, less in dignity than an ambassador, or an envoy. This term 
  formerly related only to the continuance of the minister's stay, but now it 
  is confined to ministers of this class. 
       2. The resident does not represent the prince's person in his dignity, 
  but only his affairs. His representation is in reality of the same nature as 
  that of the envoy; hence he is often termed, as well as the envoy, a 
  minister of the second order, thus distinguishing only two classes of public 
  ministers, the former consisting of ambassadors who are invested with the 
  representative character in preeminence, the latter comprising all other 
  ministers, who do not possess that exalted character. This is the most 
  necessary distinction, and indeed the only essential one. Vattel liv. 4, c. 
  6, 73. 
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESIDENT, persons. A person coming into a place with intention to establish 
  his domicil or permanent residence, and who in consequence actually remains 
  there. Time is not so essential as the intent, executed by making or 
  beginning an actual establishment, though it be abandoned in a longer, or 
  shorter period. See 6 Hall's Law Journ. 68; 3 Hagg. Eccl. R. 373; 20 John. 
  211 2 Pet. Ad. R. 450; 2 Scamm. R. 377. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RESIDENT, adj.  Unable to leave.