reside

From Old French resider, from Latin resideō (“remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sedeō (“sit”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd
• Hyphenation: re‧side

reside (third-person singular simple present resides, present participle residing, simple past and past participle resided)

1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , [Act III, scene i]:

     […] And the delighted ſpirit / To die in fierie floods, or to recide / In thrilling Region of thicke-ribbed Ice […]

   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 6, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:

     The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]

2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] for Cogitation / Reſides not in that man, that do’s not thinke […]

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment.
   • a. 1729, William Congreve, “The Birth of the Muse”, in The Works of Mr. William Congreve, volume III, London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Drape, published 1753, page 222:

     […] The madding Winds are huſh’d, the Tempeſts ceaſe, / And every rolling Surge resides in Peace.

• residence
• residency
• resident
• residential

• abide
• dwell
• live
• stay

• reside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• reside at OneLook Dictionary Search

• desier, desire, eiders, eresid, redies

residē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of resideō

reside

1. third-person singular present indicative of residir
2. second-person singular imperative of residir

reside

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of residir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of residir.