Usually means: Place where someone lives permanently.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word residence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. residence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. residence: Merriam-Webster
  3. residence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. residence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. residence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. residence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Residence, residence: Wordnik
  8. residence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. residence: Wiktionary
  10. residence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. residence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. residence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. residence: Dictionary.com
  14. residence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. residence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Residence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Residence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. residence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. residence: Rhymezone
  20. residence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. residence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. residence: FreeDictionary.org
  23. residence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. residence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. residence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. residence: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. residence: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. residence: Legal dictionary
  11. residence: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. residence: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. residence: Idioms

(Note: See residences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
noun:  A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
noun:  The place where a corporation is established.
noun:  The state of living in a particular place or environment.
noun:  Accommodation for students at a university or college.
noun:  The place where anything rests permanently.
noun:  Subsidence, as of a sediment
noun:  That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
noun:  (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

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