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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛzɪd(ə)nt/

名詞

resident (複数形 residents)

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
   • 1868, Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Harper's (volume 37, page 303)

     The tiger is a resident of the Lower Amoor, and ranges as high as 53° north latitude. In winter he roams through the same forests with the reindeer, and occasionally dines upon venison of his own catching.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   • 1953, Woodbridge Metcalf, “Trees of Las Posadas”, in Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, volume 15, Northwest Regional Council:

     The acorns are more slender and pointed than the other and this tree is a resident of foothills all around the great valley up to elevations of about 3500 feet.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
3. A physician receiving specialized medical training.

   She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

4. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
6. (espionage) Alternative form of rezident

派生語

形容詞

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

1. Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.

   resident in the city or in the country

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   He is our resident computer expert.

3. (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:

     stable and resident like a rock

   • 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert

     one there still resident as day and night

4. (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.

関連する語

Further reading

• resident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “resident”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• resident at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• Dniester, Neiderts, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies

Latin

動詞

resident

1. third-person plural present active indicative of resideō