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語源

From 中期英語 resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside +‎ -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).

(physician): So called because in the 19th century they resided in the hospital dormitories.

発音

• IPA: /ˈɹɛzɪd(ə)nt/
• 韻: -ɛzɪdənt

名詞

resident (plural 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.

   Hypernyms: bird < animal < creature

   Coordinate terms: migrant, snowbird

3. (medicine) A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.

   Hypernyms: physician, doctor < person

   Hyponym: resident doctor (UK)

   Coordinate term: attending (mentor to the residents)

   She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

4. (diplomacy) A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, 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.

   • 2023 November 1, “Network News: Strong industry interest as Positive Traction launches '08e'”, in RAIL, number 995, page 19:

     Across the country, around 180 Class 08/09s are still registered with main line operators and spot hire companies as well as at various industrial sites, while around 70 more are resident at heritage railways.

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.

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Further reading

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

アナグラム

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