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Resident

Resident Meaning & Definition
Resident Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Resident?

[n] 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
[n] someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
[adj] living in a particular place; "resident aliens"
[adj] used of animals that do not migrate

Synonyms | Synonyms for Resident: house physician | nonmigratory | occupant | occupier | resident physician

Related Terms | Find terms related to Resident:

See Also | coaster | colonial | dalesman | denizen | doc | doctor | Dr. | dweller | Galilaean | Galilean | inhabitant | inmate | Latin American | MD | medico | metropolitan | outlier | owner-occupier | physician | sojourner | Spanish American | stater | suburbanite | tenant | towner | townsman

Resident In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 2. Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] ``Stable and resident like a rock.'' --Jer. TAylor. One there still resident as day and night. --Davenant.
\Res"i*dent\, n. 1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. 2. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under {Minister}, 4.

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