different between visitor vs resident

English

Alternative forms

• visitour (obsolete)
• visiter (archaic)

Etymology

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit +? -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• Hyphenation: vis?it?or
• Rhymes: -?z?t?(?)

Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

3. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
4. A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
5. (ufology) An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.
   • 1979, Chris Boyce, Extraterrestrial Encounter: a Personal Perspective, Chartwell Books, page 184:

     5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.

   • 2001, Donald Goldsmith, Tobias C. Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, University Science Books, page 511:

     When we ask what evidence does in fact exist of extraterrestrial sojourns on our planet, we can start with what would surely be the best evidence of all: an actual visitor, or group of visitors, visible to crowds of people and ready for photo opportunities, television interviews, handshakes, polite conversation, and dancing.

   • 2004, Carol Schwartz Ellis, Sean Redmond (editor), With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, Wallflower Press, page 145:

     The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.

   • 2007, Frank G. Wilkinson, The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters, Lulu.com, page 37:

     The tower radioed the flight leader, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., and requested that he engage and attempt to identify the strange visitor.

6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
   • 1869, James Merrill Safford, Geology of Tennessee, S. C. Mercer, page 520:

     Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds.

   • 1977, John Philip Cohane, Paradox: the Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man, Crown Publishers, page 154:

     This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the “superior beings” of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy.

   • 2005, J. Douglas Kenyon, Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, And The Suppressed Origins Of Civilization, Inner Traditions * Bear & Company, page 64:

     Though Clube and Napier’s cometary visitor was not a planet, the story is surprisingly close to that of Worlds in Collision.

7. (Britain) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
8. (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Derived terms

• visitorship

Translations

Anagrams

• ivorist

Latin

Verb

v?sitor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?sit?

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)

1. A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.

2. A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
3. A physician receiving specialized medical training.

4. A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
5. (law) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
6. (espionage) Alternative form of rezident

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

resident (comparative more resident, superlative most resident)

1. 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

2. Based in a particular place; on hand; local.

   He is our resident computer expert.

3. (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

4. (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)

1. 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)

1. resident

Latin

Verb

resident

1. 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)

1. resident; residing

References

• resident on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub