residence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/
residence
- The place where one lives; one's home.
- 1881, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Ninth_Edition/Johnson,_Samuel Samuel Johnson]”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:
- Johnson took up his residence in London.
- A building used as a home.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87 ↗
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
- 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87 ↗
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes] […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship.
- subsidence, as of a sediment
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- French: résidence
- German: Wohnsitz, Wohnort
- Italian: residenza
- Portuguese: residência
- Russian: местожи́тельство
- Spanish: residencia
- French: siège social
- German: Sitz, Firmensitz
- French: résidence
- German: Wohnhaus
- Portuguese: residência, domicílio, moradia
- Russian: жильё
- French: résidence
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