residence

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The place in which one lives; a dwelling.
• noun The act or a period of residing in a place.
• noun A medical residency.
• noun The official home or location of a corporation.
• idiom (in residence) Committed to live and work in a specific place, often for a certain length of time.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of residing or dwelling in a place permanently or for a considerable time.
• noun A place of residing or abode; especially, the place where a person resides; a dwelling; a habitation.
• noun That in which anything permanently rests or inheres.
• noun A remaining; or abiding where one's duties lie, or where one's occupation is properly carried on; ecclesiastical, the presence of a bishop in his diocese, a canon in his cathedral or collegiate church, or a rector or an incumbent in his benefice: opposed to non-residence.
• noun In law:
• noun The place where a man's habitation is fixed without any present intention of removing it therefrom; domicile.
• noun An established abode, fixed for a considerable time, whether with or without a present intention of ultimate removal.
• noun The settling or settlement of liquors; the process of clearing, as by the settling of sediment.
• noun That which settles or is deposited, as the thick part of wine that has grown old in bottle.
• noun Any residue or remnant.
• noun Synonyms Domiciliation, inhabitancy, sojourn, stay.
• noun Home, domicile, mansion. See abide.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time.
• noun The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile.
• noun (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence.
• noun The place where anything rests permanently.
• noun obsolete Subsidence, as of a sediment.
• noun obsolete That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The place where one lives.
• noun A building used as a home.
• noun The place where a corporation is established.
• noun The state of living in a particular place or environment.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
• noun a large and imposing house
• noun any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
• noun the act of dwelling in a place