residence

Meanings

Plural: residences

Noun

• any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
  • "a person can have several residences"
• the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
  • "he refused to live in the governor's residence"
• the act of dwelling in a place
• a large and imposing house
• The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
• A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
• 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.

Synonyms

abidance, abode, hall, manse, mansion, mansion house, residency, rezidentura

Related Words

homestead, mease, messuage, reside, residency, resident, residential