residence

Meaning

Noun

• The place where one lives; one's home.
• A building used as a home.
• The place where a corporation is established.
• The state of living in a particular place or environment.
• Accommodation for students at a university or college.
• The place where anything rests permanently.
• subsidence, as of a sediment
• That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
• Synonym of rezidentura

Origin

• From Middle English residence, from Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from residēns, present participle of resideō.