reside

CEFRC1

/ɹɪˈzaɪd/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To live in a particular place.
02
verb
Extra detail
To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

Examples

The people who reside here are our friends.
[…] The madding Winds are huſh’d, the Tempeſts ceaſe, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

To sink; to settle, as sediment.
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.

In context

He still resides at his parents' house.
I reside in Hyogo.
[…] And the delighted ſpirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

[…] And the delighted ſpirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard,...
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
During the late eighteenth century there were 221 chia (official divisions within the pao-chia system, which reflected population) inside the city and approximately 1,900 chia in the remainder of the hsien, indicating that 10 percent of the hsien population resided in Chiu-chiang city.
1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235
[…] for Cogitation / Reſides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

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From Middle English residen, from Old French resider, from Latin resideō (“remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“sit”).