From Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to .

• IPA: /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/

residence

1. The place where one lives (reside#Verb); one's home.
   • 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC ↗:

     Johnson took up his residence in London.

2. A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house#Noun or an apartment#Noun therein.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. 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.

5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. The place where anything rests permanently.
   • 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC ↗:

     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.

7. Subsidence, as of a sediment
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:

     Separation […] is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.

8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
   • 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason:

     waters of a muddy residence

9. (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

• reside
• residency
• resident
• residential

• French: résidence
• German: Wohnsitz, Wohnort
• Italian: residenza
• Portuguese: residência
• Russian: местожи́тельство
• Spanish: residencia

• French: résidence
• German: Wohnhaus
• Portuguese: residência, domicílio, moradia
• Russian: жильё

• French: siège social
• German: Sitz, Firmensitz
• Russian: местонахожде́ние

• Russian: пребыва́ние

• French: résidence
• Russian: общежи́тие