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resident
English
Etymology
From Middle English resident, from Anglo-Norman resident, from Latin resid?ns, present participle of reside? (“to remain behind, reside, dwell”), from re- (“back”) + sede? (“I sit”). Doublet of resiant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???z?d(?)nt/
Noun
resident (plural residents)
- A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
- A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
- A physician receiving specialized medical training.
- A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
- (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
- (espionage) Alternative form of rezident
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)
- Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
- resident in the city or in the country
- Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
- He is our resident computer expert.
- (obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
- 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year
- stable and resident like a rock
- 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert
- one there still resident as day and night
- 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-sermons for the winter half-year
- (computing, of memory) Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Translations
Related terms
Further reading
- resident in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- resident in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- resident at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Dniester, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin resid?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /r?.zi?dent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /r?.zi?den/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re.zi?dent/
Noun
resident m or f (plural residents)
- resident
Related terms
- residència
- residir
Further reading
- “resident” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “resident” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “resident” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “resident” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Ladin
Noun
resident m (plural residenc)
- resident
Latin
Verb
resident
- third-person plural present active indicative of reside?
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin residentem, accusative singular of resid?ns, from the verb reside?.
Adjective
resident m (oblique and nominative feminine singular resident or residente)
- resident; residing
References
- resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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evil
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?-v?l, ?-v?l, IPA(key): /?i?v?l/, /?i?v?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?iv?l/
- Hyphenation: evil
- Rhymes: -i?v?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel), from Proto-Indo-European *h?upélos (compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *u?elos), diminutive of *h?wep(h?)-, *h?wap- (“treat badly”) (compare Hittite ???????????????? (huwapp-i, “to mistreat, harass”), ???????????????????? (huwappa-, “evil, badness”)), or alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h?ewp- (“down, up, over”).
Adjective
evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 47,[1]
- For a good while the Miss Brownings were kept in ignorance of the evil tongues that whispered hard words about Molly.
- 1916, Zane Grey, The Border Legion, New York: Harper & Bros., Chapter 10, p. 147,[2]
- He looked at her shapely person with something of the brazen and evil glance that had been so revolting to her in the eyes of those ruffians.
- 2006, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Pantheon, Book Three, Section II, Chapter 3, p. 351,[3]
- “Before this, I never had any cause to suspect my wife of any conspiracy.”
- “You mean it never crossed your mind that she might have been told to whisper evil thoughts in your ear at night?”
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 47,[1]
- Morally corrupt.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 3,[4]
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
- When death’s approach is seen so terrible.
- 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 41,[5]
- I had much trouble at first in breaking him of those evil habits his father had taught him to acquire […]
- 1967, Chaim Potok, The Chosen, New York: Fawcett Columbine, 2003, Chapter 1, p. 14,[6]
- To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time […]
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act III, Scene 3,[4]
- Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,[7]
- An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
- 1897, H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, Chapter 18,[8]
- He awoke in an evil temper […]
- 1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282,[9]
- It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.
- 1958, Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana, Penguin, 1979, Part Four, Chapter 1, p. 125,[10]
- He herded them into a small and evil toilet and then through a window.
- 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, Toronto: Random House of Canada, Chapter One, p. 39,[11]
- Everyone in the tiny, crowded, hot, and evil-smelling kitchen […] has been invited to participate in a moment of history.
- 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100,[7]
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[12]
- The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Deuteronomy 22.19,[13]
- […] he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel:
- 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes in Paradise Regain’d, to which is added Samson Agonistes, London: John Starkey, p. 89, lines 438-439,[14]
- A little stay will bring some notice hither,
- For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, New York: Modern Library, 1944, Chapter 15, p. 122,[15]
- “ […] with bandits and robbers roving over the land in these evil times of famine and war, how can it be said that this one or that stole anything? Hunger makes thief of any man.”
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act V, Scene 6,[12]
- (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 7.18,[16]
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
- Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
- nefarious
- malicious
- malevolent
- wicked
- See also Thesaurus:evil
Antonyms
- good
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
evil (countable and uncountable, plural evils)
- Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
- Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
- (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Antonyms
- good
Derived terms
Translations
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel (“evilly”), from Old English yfele, yfle (“evilly”), a derivative of the noun yfel (“evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil").
Adverb
evil (comparative more evil, superlative most evil)
- (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
- (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
- (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
- It went evil with him.
Usage notes
This adverb was usually used in conjunction with speak.
References
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Evil, adv.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume III (D–E), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 350, column 2.
Anagrams
- Levi, Viel, live, veil, vile, vlei
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
evil
- Alternative form of yvel (“evil”)
Etymology 2
Adverb
evil
- Alternative form of yvel (“evilly”)
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