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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reside
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪ The Teerlincs resided in more than one London parish and Levina, for a painter, enjoyed an unusual degree of social status.
▪ Students who reside in subsidized public housing.
▪ Everything, therefore, resides in and is sustained within one absolute consciousness.
now
▪ They now reside in the map collection of the New York Public Library.
▪ The drawing was sold by Lord's at auction five years ago and now resides, fittingly, in Darlington.
▪ Originally from New Hampshire, Sheridan made the journey west in 1994, and now resides in Utah.
still
▪ Bao Dai was still residing at his chateau near Cannes with his wife and five children.
▪ Many of them still reside in South Florida today.
there
▪ Assessed at 26s. 6d., it must have been tenanted, since John did not reside there.
▪ Various members of his family have resided there from time to time.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The population resides predominantly in areas classed as urban for local government purposes.
▪ This engram resides in a tiny area in the brain's cerebellum - a place many neuroscientists never thought to look.
person
▪ However, there are a variety of different types of institutional setting in which an older person might reside.
▪ There are approximately three million persons residing in the sierra who speak only Quechua or Aymara.
▪ Far better to send an unofficial person, who can reside inconspicuously at the Embassy, coming and going unremarked.
power
▪ The only power a consumer has resides in the power to refuse to buy, a version of withdrawal of labour.
▪ But what Jim had not resolved was where power resided when agreement could not be reached.
▪ In keeping with the emphasis on parliamentarianism there was the idea that party power should reside within the parliamentary leadership alone.
▪ The powers residing in herbs, stones, and aromas were both natural and divine.
▪ But ultimately the power and the money reside with the brand itself.
▪ But economic power no longer resides in the material world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At that time there were many American writers residing in Paris.
▪ Miss Badu grew up in Dallas but now resides in Brooklyn.
▪ Miss Tonelli, how exactly did you come to reside at your current address?
▪ The government bureau has prepared a booklet for U.S. citizens residing abroad.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the time being we reside with her parents in their small but practical house in the southern suburbs of Berlin.
▪ However, there are a variety of different types of institutional setting in which an older person might reside.
▪ Or did the problem also reside in the hardness of the job itself?
▪ People who reside inside the city limits make up 60 percent of the population of the community.
▪ Qume's architecture allows the server code to reside on the host, eliminating costly licence fees.
▪ The Maritime Province was both the temporary home for working-class compatriots from the homeland and the base for patriots residing abroad.
▪ Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
▪ Where wealth resided they constructed the equivalent of kingdoms; huge shining towers of glass and steel.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reside

Reside \Re*side"\ (r?-z?d"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing.] [F. r['e]sider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See Sit. ]

  1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time.

    At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana.
    --Shak.

    In no fixed place the happy souls reside.
    --Dryden.

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

    In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside.
    --Barrow.

  3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [Obs.]
    --Boyle.

    Syn: To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reside

late 15c., "to settle," from Middle French resider (15c.) and directly from Latin residere "sit down, settle; remain behind, rest, linger; be left," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Meaning "to dwell permanently" first attested 1570s. Related: Resided; residing. Also from the French word are Dutch resideren, German residiren.

Wiktionary
reside

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

WordNet
reside
  1. v. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate]

  2. live (in a certain place) [syn: occupy, lodge in]

  3. be inherent or innate in; [syn: rest, repose]

Usage examples of "reside".

He resided in the castle of Wolfenbuttel, and possessed no more than a sixth part of the allodial estates of Brunswick and Luneburgh, which the Guelph family had saved from the confiscation of their great fiefs.

In her I will hope to find those simple, artless, and engaging charms, which in vain I have often sought in the band of females, that reside beneath my roof, and wait upon my nod.

They moved swiftly down the gravel lane that led to the manor house where the Assessor Emiliana and her family resided.

Burlingame, acting as Minister Plenipotentiary for China, recognized the right of the citizens of either country to visit or reside in the other, specially excluding in both, however, the right of naturalization.

Dirrach to reassure himself that the fresh windfall of mana was genuine and resided, not in outlander sorcery, but in hydrophane opals.

Piebald did have a lobo wife, that she resided in another villa on Planet Macho, and that her name was Hulda.

Spaniards and many of the foreigners residing at Manilla is not very great, as the British here, as everywhere else, appear to prefer associating with their own countrymen to frequenting the houses of their Spanish friends, even although quite sure of a cordial reception there.

Lo Manto was one week shy of his sixteenth birthday when he first discovered that the power of the Camorra resided in Naples as much as it did in New York.

Moreover, she so organized her system of espionage as to make the old accountant tell her unwittingly all that he knew of the private life led by Denis, his wife Marthe, and their children, Lucien, Paul, and Hortense all, indeed, that was done and said in the modest little pavilion where the young people, in spite of their increasing fortune, were still residing, evincing no ambitious haste to occupy the large house on the quay.

He offers many examples of the functioning of the morphic resonance of behavior patterns within species and a clear example is of the well documented development of a habit among a bird species residing in England, the blue tits.

The bookshop itself, with its copiously furnished shelves on the ground floor and its cramped lodgings one twist of a turnpike stair above those, had resided on London Bridgeand in a corner of Nonsuch House, the most handsome of its buildingsfor much longer: almost forty years.

Bendix had used her miraculous skills at memory and association to save the butts of almost every attorney and paralegal in the firm on more than one occasion by finding obscure file folders buried among the millions of documents residing on the gray metal shelves.

The latter always presupposed signs anterior to it: so that knowledge always resided entirely in the opening up of a discovered, affirmed, or secretly transmitted, sign.

Every time Ned wrote from India, where he was currently residing with Father in search of a way to recoup their recent losses, Olivia would soak in the letter, poring over each and every detail Ned let fall.

The merchants residing at Surat, finding themselves exposed to numberless dangers, and every species of oppression, by the sidee who commanded the castle on one hand, by the governor of the city on the other, and by the Mahrattas, who had a claim to a certain share of the revenue, made application to the English presidency at Bombay, desiring they would equip an expedition for taking possession of the castle and tanka, and settle the government of the city upon Pharass Cawn, who had been naib or deputy-governor under Meah Atchund, and regulated the police to the satisfaction of the inhabitants.