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student residence

student residence

3.0
A building on a college or university campus where students live
  • noun
  • /ˈstudənt ˈrɛzɪdəns/
translation icon : residencia estudiantil
  • Many students prefer to stay in a student residence to be closer to campus activities.

Examples

  • Most attended Chicago's elite universities or medical schools and lived near campus, although a clustering of student residences on Chicago's near West Side had begun, and one can find evidence of regional loyalties by matching student addresses to home provinces.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Typically, Joan Smith might come to class and, having booted up her computer and started WordPerfect, retrieve a journal writing entry command to explore the need for and potential effects of proposed student residence halls on campus.

    Academic text (1994)
  • You live in a student residence in Jerusalem, but Israel and your surroundings are on the other side of the universe.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • I'm living here in a student's residence surrounded by lots of millennials and talking with them about these issues.

  • I'm living here in a student's residence surrounded by lots of millennials and talking with them about these issues.

  • Humboldt State University has stopped stocking toilet paper in the bathrooms of four of the six student residences on campus, and students held a protest of the new policy on Friday, KRCR News reported.

    Academic text (2016)
  • We also have a number of new facilities opening this fall, including a newly renovated HUB, a new molecular engineering and sciences building, a new wing of the UW Medical Center, a new library addition in Tacoma, and two new student residence halls in Seattle's west campus.

    Blog text (25)
  • South African police raided a university student residence in Johannesburg early Sunday, arresting a leader of sometimes violent protests for free education who caused an outcry last year when he declared admiration for Adolf Hitler.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Glen now helps set the political agenda in Turkey using his followers in the AKP as well as the movement's vast media empire, financial institutions and banks, business organizations, an international network of thousands of schools, universities, student residences (iota; s? tkevis), and many associations and foundations.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The university built a new student residence to accommodate the growing number of applicants.

Synonyms

residence
vsstudent residence
253 2.5

A house or other place where someone lives

is limited to campus buildings for on campus living rather than any home
dorm
vsstudent residence
  • Informal
209 1.8

A building where college or university students live while they study

is the broader campus housing concept not emphasizing shared rooms
hall
vsstudent residence
156 1.0

A university building where students live

is the campus accommodation concept rather than the general home meaning
dormitory
vsstudent residence
38 2.4

A building where college or university students live while they study

is the same campus living idea expressed in more general words
living quarters
vsstudent residence
18 2.8

Rooms or small buildings where people live inside a larger place

is focused on campus housing for academic communities rather than general quarters
residence hall
vsstudent residence
  • US
7 2.8

A building on a college campus where students live

is the general label for campus housing and on campus living
living accommodations
vsstudent residence
1 3.3

Places like rooms or buildings where people live

is specific to campus buildings serving higher education occupants
hall of residence
vsstudent residence
  • UK
3.2

A building where university students live during term time

is a broader term for campus housing not tied to regional usage
lodgings
vsstudent residence
3.3

Temporary rooms you rent to stay in for a short time

is long term campus living in purpose built buildings not short rentals

How Big

student residence
3.0
studio
136 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

student + residence

The meaning 'a building providing living accommodation for students' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'student' (person studying) + 'residence' (place where someone lives) with no idiomatic shift. This straightforward noun–noun combination is a common lexical pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

Student residence combines student ('a learner') and residence ('a place to live'), so it creates a simple image of students living together in one building. So the phrase means 'a building where students live'.