residence

res|i|dence [ `rezıdəns ] noun **

1. ) count FORMAL a house or other place where someone lives, especially a large house used by an important person:

the President's official residence

The building is partly a museum and partly a private residence.

2. ) uncount the fact that someone lives somewhere, or the period of time they spend living there:

After many years of residence in Paris, he returned home.

take up residence (=start to live somewhere): He took up residence in Hollywood in 1999.

a ) the legal right to live in a country that is not your own:

The proposal would grant U.S. residence to up to 20,000 refugees.

in residence

1. ) FORMAL living somewhere:

the guests who were in residence at the hotel

2. ) a writer, poet, artist, etc. in residence has been invited to work in a university or other institution

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