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# reside

«reside» in Mova's school dictionary: **To live in a place: She resides in Toronto** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (reside, resides, resided, residing) — formal

### meaning for a pupil

1) To live in a place: She resides in Toronto. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#m1)

2) To be found in or belong to something: Power resides with the people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In formal language, forms and exams «reside» means live. Children meet it on official letters, in stories about kings who reside in palaces, and in science: «the information resides in the cell's nucleus». Nouns: resident (a person who lives there), residence (a home).

### examples

- The queen resides in a large palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x1)
- All pupils who reside in the town may join the club. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x2)
- He resided in Dublin for ten months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x3)
- Your address is where you reside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x4)
- Bats reside in the old barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x5)
- The power to change the rule resides with the council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x6)
- "Where do you reside when you are at home?" asked the shirt-collar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/#x7)

### note

Formal; everyday word: live. Not the same as «resign» (leave a job). «Resident» is also a person living somewhere, like «a local resident».

### In the corpora

- [The court hereby orders that the child shall reside with the applicant.» Lexi asks what it means.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/523-kinship-care-living-with-gran-or-an-aunt/37/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «reside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/reside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.