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# resident

«resident» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who lives in a place, such as a house, street…** — 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

noun (a resident, residents); adjective (resident: "a resident doctor", "the resident expert")

### meaning for a pupil

1) A resident is a person who lives in a place, such as a house, street, town or country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#m1)

2) A resident is also someone living in a hotel, care home or hospital for a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#m2)

3) (adjective) Resident means living or working in a place: "our resident cat", "the resident artist". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#m3)

4) (humorous) "The resident expert" is the person in a group who knows most about something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems residents are the people counted in a town or a block of flats: "a town has 4,500 residents". In everyday life signs say "residents only" for parking. In science an animal that lives in one area all year is a resident, not a visitor. Phrases: local residents, residents only, permanent resident, resident of.

### examples

- Residents of our street had a big party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x1)
- The sign says "Parking for residents only". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x2)
- Each of the 12 flats has 3 residents, so there are 36 residents in all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x3)
- My aunt is a resident of Canada. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x4)
- The care home has forty residents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x5)
- Robins are resident birds here; they stay all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x6)
- Ask Sam, he is our resident computer expert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x7)
- The new residents moved in next door yesterday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x8)
- He even found a house for his guest, and in this way Sentaro obtained his great wish and became a resident in the country of Perpetual Life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/resident/#x9)

### note

Countable: a resident, residents. Related words: reside (formal: live), residence (a home, formal), residential (an area with houses). In maths "residents" are a count of people, so the answer is a whole number. Do not confuse with "president".

### In the corpora

- [Antarctica has no permanent residents, only scientists and staff who stay for a season or a year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/5-continents-and-oceans/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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