Meanings
nonresident1
alternative non-resident
- not comparableNot resident; not residing in the place in question.
a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands
1 more example
The Trump administration’s tactics are highly unusual, said Andrew O’Donohue, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who studies clashes between courts and elected leaders around the world.
2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025
nonresident2
plural nonresidents · alternative non-resident
- lawA person living in a country who is not a legal permanent resident of that country.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot living in a particular place or owned by permanent residents
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
nonresident · adjective
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Englishresident
- Englishnonresident
nonresident · noun
- Middle Englishnon-resident
- Englishnonresident
From Middle English non-resident, nounresident, equivalent to non- + resident.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
nonresident. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonresident
“nonresident.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonresident. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonresident,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonresident.
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