different between residence vs homeland

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

Etymology

home +? land

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: home?land

Noun

homeland (plural homelands)

1. The country that one regards as home.
2. One's country of residence.
3. One's country of birth.
4. The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
5. (South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.

   Synonym: bantustan

Hypernyms

• land

Translations

References

• homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• homeland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Holdeman