Other forms: residents
A resident is somebody who lives in a particular place. Not a visitor — one of the people who are there all year.
Councils, hotels and care homes all use the word precisely, since residents get rights that visitors do not, such as residents' parking. It works as an adjective too, so a resident cat lives on the premises and a resident expert is one attached to an organisation. American medicine uses it for a doctor in training. The noun residence means both the act of living somewhere and a rather grand house.
1nounresidentA person who lives in a particular place.
“Local residents objected to the plan.”
2adjectivelivingLiving or based in a particular place.
“The hotel has a resident pianist.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Also accepted in games: inhabitant
A resident is somebody who sits back. Latin resideō, from re, back, and sedeō, to sit, meant to remain behind or to dwell, so the word is about staying put rather than owning anything.
Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
Russian
резиде́нт
Latin
residēns
Anglo-Norman
resident
Middle English
resident
English, today
resident
Built from
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”). a doublet of resiant and rezident. The espionage sense is a Russian резиде́нт. physician So called because in the 19th century they resided in the hospital dormitories.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA