resident

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who resides in a particular place permanently or for an extended period, as:
2. n. A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
3. n. A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
4. n. A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale: the FBI resident in St. Louis.
5. n. One who lives in a dormitory.
6. n. A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
7. n. A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
8. adj. Dwelling in a particular place; residing: resident aliens.
9. adj. Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
10. adj. Inherently present: resident anxieties.
11. adj. Nonmigratory: resident fauna.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Residing; having a seat or dwelling; dwelling or having an abode in a place for a continuance of time.
2. Fixed; firm.
3. In zoology:
4. Remaining in a place the whole year; not migratory: said especially of birds.
5. Pertaining to or consisting of residents: as, the resident fauna; a resident theory.
6. Having one's abode in a given place in pursuit of one's duty or occupation: as, he is minister resident at that court.
7. n. One who or that which resides or dwells in a place permanently or for a considerable time; one residing: as, the American residents of Paris.
8. n. In law, one who has a residence in the legal sense. See residence. Resident and its contrary, non-resident, are more commonly used to refer to abode, irrespective of the absence of intention to remove.
9. n. A public minister who resides at a foreign court: the name is usually given to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors.
10. n. In zoology, an animal, or a species of animal, which remains in the same place throughout the year: distinguished from migrant or visitant: said especially of birds.
11. n. In feudal law, a tenant who was obliged to reside on his lord's land, and not to depart from it.
12. n. In India:
13. n. Previous to the organization of the civil service, a chief of one of the commercial establishments of the East India Company.
14. n. Later, a representative of the viceroy at an important native court, as at Lucknow or Delhi.
15. n. The governor of a residency in the Dutch East Indies. Synonyms Inhabitant, inhabiter, dweller, sojourner.

Wiktionary

1. n. person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area
2. n. a bird which does not migrate during the course of the year
3. n. a graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty
4. n. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. adj. the person on hand who is the strongest in a particular skill or profession
6. adj. a student in the medical profession who watches a licensed doctor in order to learn a skill

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident.
2. adj. obsolete Fixed; stable; certain.
3. n. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
4. n. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.

WordNet 3.0

1. 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
2. adj. used of animals that do not migrate
3. n. someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
4. adj. living in a particular place