different between residence vs dabbawalla

English

Etymology

From Old French residence, from Medieval Latin residentia, from resid?ns, present participle of reside?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z.?.d?ns/

Noun

residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)

1. The place where one lives; one's home.
2. A building used as a home.
3. The place where a corporation is established.
4. The state of living in a particular place or environment.
   • 1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87

     The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.

5. Accommodation for students at a university or college.
6. The place where anything rests permanently.
7. subsidence, as of a sediment

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

8. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
   • 1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason

     waters of a muddy residence

9. (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura

Related terms

• reside
• residency
• resident
• residential

Translations

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

residence f (plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)

Old French

Alternative forms

• residance
• residense

Noun

residence f (oblique plural residences, nominative singular residence, nominative plural residences)

1. residence (place where one resides)

English

Alternative forms

• dabbawala
• dabbawallah

Etymology

Borrowed from Marathi ??????? (?abev?l?), Hindi ????????? (?abb?v?l?), literally "person with a box".

Noun

dabbawalla (plural dabbawallas)

1. (India) A deliveryperson in Mumbai, India who collects freshly cooked food in lunchboxes from workers' residences (mostly in the suburbs), delivers it to their respective workplaces, and returns the empty containers.