resident

1. 1.

   living in a particular place

   “resident aliens”

   Antonymsnonresident
2. 2.

   used of animals that do not migrate

   Synonymsnonmigratory

Other forms of resident

plural

residents·

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 resident

What does resident mean?

resident means "someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in resident?

resident has 3 syllables: res-i-dent. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛzɪdənt/.

What is another word for resident?

Close synonyms include occupant, occupier, house physician, resident physician, nonmigratory. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of resident?

The recorded antonyms are nonresident, nonresident.

Is resident a common word?

resident is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.