# resident

Pronunciation: US say "REZ-i-duhnt" /ˈɹɛzɪd(ə)nt/; UK

## Noun

1. A person, animal, or plant that lives at a particular location or in a given area.
   - Simple: Someone, an animal, or a plant that lives in a certain place or area.
   - _Each resident of the valley relies on the same river for water._
   - _Long-term residents of the marsh include herons, frogs, and dragonflies._
3. A physician undergoing specialized training, typically in a hospital after completing medical school.
   - Simple: A doctor who is training, usually in a hospital, to become a specialist.
   - _The resident presented the case to the attending physician during morning rounds._
   - _Surgical residents rotate through several departments during their years of training._
4. A person who holds legal permanent residency in a country without being a citizen.
   - Simple: A person who is legally allowed to live in a country permanently without being a citizen.
   - _As a lawful permanent resident, he pays taxes but cannot vote in national elections._
   - _As a resident rather than a citizen, he could live and work in the country but could not vote in national elections._
5. A bird that remains in the same region throughout the year rather than migrating.
   - Simple: A bird that stays in the same area all year instead of flying away for winter.
   - _The cardinal is a year-round resident across much of the eastern United States._
   - _Unlike the warblers, which leave in the fall, the cardinal is a resident that stays through the coldest months._
7. A diplomatic representative stationed in a foreign country, usually ranking below an ambassador.
   - Simple: A government's official who lives in another country, ranking below an ambassador.
   - _The British resident advised the prince on matters of trade and defense._
   - _Several residents were recalled when relations between the two states broke down._

## Adjective

2. Living in a particular place, or based and regularly present there, for a continuing period.
   - Simple: Living in a place, or working there regularly, for a long time.
   - _The resident squire managed the estate his family had held for centuries._
   - _Few of the original resident households remain in the old village._
6. Currently held in physical memory (RAM) and immediately available, rather than paged out to disk.
   - Simple: Loaded into a computer's fast memory and ready to use right away.
   - _A resident driver loads at startup and stays active in memory the whole session._
   - _The antivirus keeps a resident module running to scan files in real time._

## Adjective

8. Fixed, stable, and certain; firmly settled and not subject to change. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Fixed, steady, and not likely to change.

## Other meanings

- (noun) Alternative form of rezident.

## Origin

From Middle English resident, via Anglo-Norman, from Latin residēns, the present participle of resideō ("to remain behind, reside, dwell"), built from re- ("back") and sedeō ("I sit"). The espionage sense was borrowed from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént), and the physician sense arose because in the 19th century such doctors resided in the hospital dormitories.

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