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RESIDENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of dwelling in a place
Synonyms:
abidance; residence; residency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):
act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):
lodging (the act of lodging)
occupancy; tenancy (an act of being a tenant or occupant)
Derivation:
reside (live (in a certain place))
reside (make one's home in a particular place or community)
resident (living in a particular place)
residential (of or relating to or connected with residence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A large and imposing house
Synonyms:
hall; manse; mansion; mansion house; residence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Meronyms (parts of "residence"):
hall; manor hall (the large room of a manor or castle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):
manor; manor house (the mansion of a lord or wealthy person)
castle; palace (a large and stately mansion)
stately home (a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
Example:
he refused to live in the governor's residence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):
court (the residence of a sovereign or nobleman)
deanery (the official residence of a dean)
manse (the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman))
palace (official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign))
parsonage; rectory; vicarage (an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector)
cloister; religious residence (residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery))
Instance hyponyms:
Vatican; Vatican Palace (the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City)
White House (the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States)
Mount Vernon (the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
Example:
a person can have several residences
Synonyms:
abode; residence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("residence" is a kind of...):
address (the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residence"):
domicile; legal residence ((law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time)
home; place (where you live at a particular time)
Context examples:
It proved to be that of a young gentleman whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Without a stable or permanent residence.
(Homeless, NCI Thesaurus)
Healthcare administered to an individual in the individual's residence.
(Home Care, NCI Thesaurus)
His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A way of contracting a disease through interactions with an infected person in the same residence.
(Household Contact, NCI Thesaurus)
Probably because during her residence in Liverpool she had some hand in bringing about the events which led to the tragedy.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A description of a personal residence and the relationship between the occupants that reside there.
(Living Arrangement, NCI Thesaurus)
The mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.
(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
And here it may, perhaps, divert the curious reader, to give some account of my domestics, and my manner of living in this country, during a residence of nine months, and thirteen days.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An estimate of the volume of distribution at steady state, which is the mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity times steady state clearance (MRTINF*Clss), based on the last observed concentration.
(Observed Steady State Volume of Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)
