resident
noun
[ ˈrɛzɪd(ə)nt ]
• a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis.
• "it was a beautiful hamlet with just 100 residents"
Similar:
inhabitant,
local,
householder,
homeowner,
houseowner,
citizen,
native,
townsman,
townswoman,
taxpayer,
occupant,
occupier,
tenant,
denizen,
burgher,
dweller,
residentiary,
indweller,
• a medical graduate engaged in specialized practice under supervision in a hospital.
resident
adjective
• living somewhere on a long-term basis.
• "he has been resident in Brazil for a long time"
Similar:
living,
residing,
in residence,
staying,
remaining,
dwelling,
biding,
residentiary,
live-in,
living in,
• (of a computer program, file, etc.) immediately available in computer memory, rather than having to be loaded from elsewhere.
• "an intangible computer program resident on a magnetic disk"
Origin:
Middle English: from Latin resident- ‘remaining’, from the verb residere (see reside).
