nonresident

1. 1.

   someone who does not live in a particular place

   “described by an admiring nonresident as a green and pleasant land”

   Antonymsresident

   Broaderperson

1. 1.

   not living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents

   “nonresident students who commute to classes”

   “nonresident real estate”

   Antonymsresident

Other forms of nonresident

plural

nonresidents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonresident

What does nonresident mean?

nonresident means "someone who does not live in a particular place". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonresident?

nonresident has 4 syllables: non-res-i-dent. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /nɑnˈɹɛzədənt/.

What is the opposite of nonresident?

The recorded antonyms are resident, resident.

Is nonresident a common word?

nonresident is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.