resident
- 01 B1 Intermediate
n.someone who lives in a particular house, apartment, or area.
n.a person who inhabits a specific dwelling or locality on a permanent or long-term basis.
Simple“The local residents are unhappy about the new noisy construction project.”
In context“The city council invited residents of the affected neighbourhood to a public forum to discuss the proposed zoning changes.”
- 02 B2 Upper Intermediate
n.a doctor who has finished medical school and is getting advanced training in a hospital.
n.a physician who has completed medical school and is undergoing specialised postgraduate training in a clinical setting.
Simple“The resident checked on the patient every two hours during the night.”
In context“After completing her internship, she secured a position as a surgical resident at one of the country's leading teaching hospitals.”
Synonymstrainee doctor - 03 B2 Upper Intermediate
adj.living or working in a specific place for a long time.
adj.dwelling or staying in a place for a continued period; often used to describe staff who live where they work.
Simple“The hotel has a resident pianist who plays in the lobby every evening.”
In context“The university's resident experts were called upon to provide testimony during the environmental impact hearing.”
- 04 C1 Advanced
adj.describes a computer program that stays in the computer's active memory (RAM) so it is always ready.
adj.referring to software or data that remains permanently or semi-permanently in a computer's random-access memory.
Simple“The antivirus software is memory-resident to protect the system in real time.”
In context“The operating system manages resident programs to ensure that critical background tasks do not exhaust the available physical memory.”
Antonyms
Usage resident doctor · resident doctors · residents fled
“Meanwhile, tourists and residents also fled villages in northern Greece’s Halkidiki region on Thursday after strong winds fanned a wildfire, engulfing houses and trees near a resort during the heart of the holiday season.”
“Mark Edwards was contacted by the council after a Tonyrefail resident complained about the van's music being played in the evening.”
From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént). (physician): So called because in the 19th century they resided in the hospital dormitories.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.