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Where you keep your toothbrush and pretend to have your life together.
means The place where someone lives, whether temporarily or permanently — the official answer to 'where do you stay.'
from From Latin residere, 'to sit back, remain, stay behind' — a combination of re- ('back') and sedere ('to sit'). The same sedere root gives us 'sedentary' and 'sediment,' so a residence is, etymologically, just the spot where you've settled and sat yourself down.
- legal weight
- Determines taxes, voting, and which court can sue you
- vs domicile
- Residence is where you live, domicile is your permanent legal home
- royal flex
- Official residence once just meant where the monarch parked a throne
- root cousin
- Shares DNA with reside, resident, and sediment, all about settling down