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residence

/ˈɹɛz.ɪ.dəns/ noun B2
  1. The place where one lives (resides); one's home. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein. (countable, uncountable)
  3. The place where a corporation is established. (countable, uncountable)
  4. The state of living in a particular place or environment. (countable, uncountable)
  5. Accommodation for students at a university or college. (countable, uncountable)
  6. The place where anything rests permanently. (countable, uncountable)
  7. Subsidence, as of a sediment (countable, uncountable)
  8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. (countable, uncountable)

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The Frog that lived in the pond warned his friend to change his residence and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 64 · B2
There was yet another individual whose residence under that roof was, it is true, only an intermittent one, but whose presence at the time of the strange happenings which will now be narrated brought his name prominently before the public.
The Valley of Fear, p. 24 · C1
‘Erected in the fifth year of the reign of James I, and standing upon the site of a much older building, the Manor House of Birlstone presents one of the finest surviving examples of the moated Jacobean residence—’”
The Valley of Fear, p. 81 · C1
Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count’s chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated “dappled grays,” now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 499 · C1

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