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Noun: residence  re-zi-dun(t)s
  1. Any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
    "a person can have several residences";
    - abode
     
  2. The official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
    "he refused to live in the governor's residence"
     
  3. The act of dwelling in a place
    - residency, abidance
     
  4. A large and imposing house
    - mansion, mansion house, manse [archaic], hall

Sounds like: relator, reidence, res

Derived forms: residences

Type of: act, address, deed, house, human action, human activity

Encyclopedia: Residence, Abbot Street