residenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/
• ハイフネーション: res‧i‧dence

名詞

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

1. The place where one lives (resides); 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 or an apartment 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

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参考

• homestead
• messuage
• mease

Further reading

• “residence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “residence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “residence”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.