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reside

verbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɹɪˈzaɪd//
  • Canada//ɹɪˈzaɪd//
  • Canada//ɹəˈzaɪd//
  • Australia//ɹɪˈzɑed//
  • New Zealand/[ɹəˈzɑe̯d]/

To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.

verb

  1. 1

    To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.

    […] And the delighted ſpirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]

    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, […]

    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.

    He still resides at his parents' house.

  2. 2

    To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.

    […] for Cogitation / Reſides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]

  3. 3

    To sink; to settle, as sediment.

    […] The madding Winds are huſh’d, the Tempeſts ceaſe, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.

Etymology

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

Forms

past tense
resided
past participle
resided
present participle
residing
third person singular
resides
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