A colorless, blue, yellow, brown, or pink mineral consisting largely of aluminum silicate and valued as a gem. Topaz is often found in pegmatites and is the mineral used to represent a hardness of 8 on the Mohs scale. 2. Any of various yellow gemstones, especially a yellow variety of sapphire or corundum.
Quora User, lives in Hyderabad, India. According to Indians, generally, your native place is where your paternal side has come from. So your native place would be Hyderabad. But now, if you've lived in hyd for long, you can say I'm from hyd, but i was born in vellore and my dads from hyd and my moms from vellore.. That's how most people say it now.
residence. n. 1) the place where one makes his/her home. However, a person may have his/her state of domicile elsewhere for tax or other purposes, especially if the residence is for convenience or not of long standing. 2) in corporation law, the state of incorporation.(See: resident). person can have two places of residence, such as one in the city and one in the country, but only one domicile. Residence means living in a particular locality, but domicile means living in that locality with the intent to make it a fixed and permanent home.