residence

Definition of Residence

(noun) A place where an individual or group lives; a dwelling; a home.

Examples of Residence

• The President of the United States of America lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC
• University students live in dormitories.

Types of Residence

• avunculocal residence
• bilocal residence
• duolocal residence
• matrilocal residence
• neolocal residence
• postmarital residence

Residence Pronunciation

Pronunciation Usage Guide

Syllabification: res·i·dence

Audio Pronunciation

International Phonetic Alphabet

• American English – /ˈrɛz(ə)d(ə)ns/
• British English – /ˈrɛzᵻd(ə)ns/

Usage Notes

• Plural: residences
• The terms “residence” and “home” are often used interchangeably. However, home has a connotation of family and embodied knowledge.
• A legal residence refers to an individual’s permanent residence.
• Also called:
  • abode
  • domicile
  • dwelling
  • house
• A (noun) resident (verb) resides in a residence often in a (adjective) residential area and has (noun) residency.

Related Quotation

• “[F]amilies once provided their children with jobs. Inheritance of the family farm or business was an important factor structuring many young people’s economic opportunities and their relationships with their parents. Nepotism has not totally vanished from modern economies; many parents can ‘pick up the phone‘ and procure opportunities for their children in the businesses of friends and associates. Nevertheless, most parents who want to help their children must now find other ways to do so. Financing their children’s college education, which often delays complete financial and residential independence of those children, is one way parents achieve this end” (Goldscheider and Torr 2007:2571).

Additional Information

• Family and Kinship Resources – Books, Journals, and Helpful Links
• Word origin of “residence” – Online Etymology Dictionary: etymonline.com

Related Terms

• common-law marriage
• endogamy
• exogamy
• family of orientation
• family of procreation
• marriage
• polyamory
• polygamy
• polygyny
• unilocal rule

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Reference

Goldscheider, Frances, and Berna Torr. 2007. “Leaving Home in the Transition to Adulthood.” Pp. 2571 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Works Consulted

Andersen, Margaret L., and Howard Francis Taylor. 2011. Sociology: The Essentials. 6th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

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Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. 1997. New York: Random House.

Wikipedia contributors. (N.d.) Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Wikimedia Foundation. (http://en.wiktionary.org).

Cite the Definition of Residence

ASA – American Sociological Association (5th edition)

Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “residence.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Retrieved April 26, 2024 (https://sociologydictionary.org/residence/).

APA – American Psychological Association (6th edition)

residence. (2014). In K. Bell (Ed.), Open education sociology dictionary. Retrieved from https://sociologydictionary.org/residence/

Chicago/Turabian: Author-Date – Chicago Manual of Style (16th edition)

Bell, Kenton, ed. 2014. “residence.” In Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://sociologydictionary.org/residence/.

MLA – Modern Language Association (7th edition)

“residence.” Open Education Sociology Dictionary. Ed. Kenton Bell. 2014. Web. 26 Apr. 2024. <https://sociologydictionary.org/residence/>.