resident

One who lives

A resident is someone who lives in a particular place, whether a house, neighborhood, city, or country.

Residents of the apartment complex share a parking garage.

The term also applies to doctors in training who work at a hospital while completing their specialty education after medical school.

As an adjective, resident describes someone or something that lives or is based in a location: the resident expert on tax law.

In computing, resident describes programs or data that remain in memory rather than being loaded as needed.

inhabitant

occupant

One dwelling within

local · inmate · indweller · settler · homesteader · squatter · cohabitant · neighbor · townsfolk · villager

physician

intern

Supervised workplace learner

houseman · rotation · rounds · on-call · attending · hospitalist · match · fellowship · clinical · specialty

native

indigenous

Originating in a region

longtime · established · permanent · lifelong · homegrown · rooted · generational · hereditary · original · endemic

tenant

renter

One who pays for housing

boarder · roomer · sublessee · flatmate · housemate · roommate · lease · tenancy · landlord · rent

domicile

home

One's personal residence

address · household · quarters · lodging · housing · apartment · condominium · flat · domiciliary · homebound

immigrant

newcomer

Recent arrival somewhere

emigrant · expatriate · alien · foreigner · nonnative · naturalized · visa · citizenship · naturalization · relocation

Categories
Opposites
permanence of dwelling

residentvisitor

Short-term guest

transient · nonresident · non-resident · tourist · guest

legal/official status

residentalien

Non-native being

nonresident · foreigner · non-resident · outsider · stranger

direction of movement

residentemigrant

Person resettling in another nation

expatriate · exile · evacuee · refugee · defector

Phrases
Family

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