Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

resident

/ˈɹɛzɪdənt/ noun, adjective

Forms residents

  1. noun A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
  2. noun A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
  3. noun (medicine) A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic. “She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.”
  4. noun (diplomacy) A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
  5. noun (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
  6. adjective Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate. “resident in the city or in the country”
  7. adjective Based in a particular place; on hand; local. “He is our resident computer expert.”
  8. adjective (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
  9. adjective (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.

Synonyms

occupant occupier house physician resident physician nonmigratory

Antonyms

nonresident

Etymology

From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin residēns, present participle of resideō (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), equivalent to reside + -ent, from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“to sit”). Doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a semantic loan from Russian резиде́нт (rezidént).
(physician): So called because in the 19th century they resided in the hospital dormitories.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; --opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
  2. adjective Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer. TAylor.
  3. noun One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
  4. noun A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; --a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferrior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister,4.

Etymology [F. résident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “resident”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “resident” (best matches first).