residence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the official house or establishment of an important person, as a sovereign or president

   The new governor-elect refused to live in the official residence.

2. 2
   noun

   any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

   a person can have several residences

3. 3
   noun

   The place where one lives (resides); one's home.

   Johnson took up his residence in London.

4. 4
   noun

   The state of living in a particular place or environment.

   The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   Subsidence, as of a sediment

   Separation[…]is wrought by Weight; as in the ordinary Residence or Settlement of Liquors.

7. 7
   noun

   That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

   waters of a muddy residence

8. 8
   noun

   the act of dwelling in a place

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō, equivalent to reside + -ence.