residents
- 1Plural of resident.
Local residents petitioned the council to slow traffic near the school.
Several residents complained about the noise from the construction site.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of its singular, so context decides which group is meant: people living in a place, birds that stay put all year instead of migrating, physicians in specialized training, or diplomats posted abroad below an ambassador's rank. The group possessive puts the apostrophe after the s (residents' parking, a residents' association), because the thing belongs to all of them rather than to one.
residents is a form of resident
resident, noun: A person, animal, or plant that lives at a particular location or in a given area. Full entry
- Forms
- residentresidents plural
- Spelling
- resident → residents: add -s
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