Definition of "resident" in İngilizce

noun

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.

3. (medicine) A physician receiving postgraduate medical training in a hospital or clinic.

   • She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.

4. (diplomacy) A diplomatic representative who resides in a foreign country, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.

5. (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.

6. (espionage) Alternative form of rezident.

adjective

1. 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

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   • He is our resident computer expert.

3. (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.

4. (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.