Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

took up residence

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables
took up res-i-dence
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past of take up residence

Questions

What does took up residence mean?
simple past of take up residence

How to pronounce took up residence

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