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English Dictionary: residence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for residence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
residence n any address at which you dwell more than temporarily; "a person can have several residences" Synonym(s): residence, abode the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); "he refused to live in the governor's residence" the act of dwelling in a place Synonym(s): residency, residence, abidance a large and imposing house Synonym(s): mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Residence \Res"idence\ (r?z"?-dens), n. [F. r[82]sidence. See {Resident}.] 1. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence* of an American in France or Italy for a year. The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. --Sir M. Hale. 2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. [bd]Near the residence of Posthumus.[b8] --Shak. Johnson took up his residence in London. --Macaulay. 3. (Eng.Eccl.Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. 4. The place where anything rests permanently. 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. --Milton. 5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [Obs.] --Bacon. 6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. Syn: Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion.