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- pronunciation:
- re
zih
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 ns
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a house or any other place where one lives; home.
His family lives in a grand old residence up on the hill.- synonyms:
- apartment, dwelling, flat, home, house, place
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| definition 2: |
the act or a period of living in a place.
I enjoyed my residence in Hawaii.- synonyms:
- stay
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| related words: |
address, apartment, building, housing, place |
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The word residence
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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