MEANING
1. To belong to, or exist within, someone or something as a quality or power.
2. To live or make one’s home in a particular place.
Use it for
locating the strength of an argument; identifying where institutional authority is held; showing that value lies in relationships rather than separate parts; distinguishing a property’s source from its visible appearanceLocates a quality or authority within a relationship or structure, distinct from the ordinary formal meaning of living somewhere. Writing functions: Theory / Conceptual Language, Significance / Scope.
Words that belong together
- strength resides in
- authority resides with
- value resides in
On the page
The argument’s strength resides in the comparison, not in the force of its language.
In this model, authority resides with the assembly rather than an individual officeholder.
The records show that the family resided above the workshop for nearly twenty years.
During that period, she resided abroad and corresponded with the editor by post.
Word forms
- Base
- reside
- Past tense
- resided
- Past participle
- resided
- Present participle
- residing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- reside
- Present continuous
- am/is/are residing
- Present perfect
- have/has resided
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been residing
- Past
- resided
- Past continuous
- was/were residing
- Past perfect
- had resided
- Past perfect continuous
- had been residing
- Future
- will reside
- Future continuous
- will be residing
- Future perfect
- will have resided
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been residing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive verb: reside; resides; resided; resided; residing. Future: will reside. Physical use usually reside in or at; abstract use often reside in or with. No direct object. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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