residence

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The place in which one lives; a dwelling.
2. n. The act or a period of residing in a place.
3. n. A medical residency.
4. n. The official home or location of a corporation.
5. idiom. in residence Committed to live and work in a specific place, often for a certain length of time: an artist in residence at a college.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of residing or dwelling in a place permanently or for a considerable time.
2. n. A place of residing or abode; especially, the place where a person resides; a dwelling; a habitation.
3. n. That in which anything permanently rests or inheres.
4. n. A remaining; or abiding where one's duties lie, or where one's occupation is properly carried on; ecclesiastical, the presence of a bishop in his diocese, a canon in his cathedral or collegiate church, or a rector or an incumbent in his benefice: opposed to non-residence.
5. n. In law:
6. n. The place where a man's habitation is fixed without any present intention of removing it therefrom; domicile.
7. n. An established abode, fixed for a considerable time, whether with or without a present intention of ultimate removal. A man cannot fix an intentionally temporary domicile, for the intention that it be temporary makes it in law no domicile, though the abode may be sufficiently fixed to make it in law a residence in this sense. A man may have two residences, but only one can be his domicile. The bankruptcy law uses the term residence specifically, as contradistinguished from domicile, so as to free cases under it from the difficult and embarrassing presumptions and circumstances upon which the distinctions between domicile and residence rest. Residence is a fact easily ascertained, domicile a question difficult of proof. It is true that the two terms are often nsed as synonymous, but in law they have distinct meanings. (Bump.)
8. n. The settling or settlement of liquors; the process of clearing, as by the settling of sediment.
9. n. That which settles or is deposited, as the thick part of wine that has grown old in bottle.
10. n. Any residue or remnant.
11. n. Synonyms Domiciliation, inhabitancy, sojourn, stay.
12. n. Home, domicile, mansion. See abide.

Wiktionary

1. n. The place where one lives.
2. n. A building used as a home.
3. n. The place where a corporation is established.
4. n. The state of living in a particular place or environment.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time.
2. n. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
3. n. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
4. n. The place where anything rests permanently.
5. n. obsolete Subsidence, as of a sediment.
6. n. obsolete That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
2. n. a large and imposing house
3. n. any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
4. n. the act of dwelling in a place