1.
[syn: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller]
2. a plant or animal naturalized in a region;
- Example: "denizens of field and forest"
- Example: "denizens of the deep"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Denizen \Den"i*zen\ (d[e^]n"[i^]*z'n), n. [OF. denzein,
deinzein, prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to
forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de
intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In,
and cf. Foreign.]
1. A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." --Pope.
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Denizens of their own free, independent state. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the
rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by
birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
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3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
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Ye gods,
Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Denizen \Den"i*zen\, v. t.
1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with
certain rights and privileges.
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As soon as denizened, they domineer. --Dryden.
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2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or
naturalized occupants.
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There [islets] were at once denizened by various
weeds. --J. D.
Hooker.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
denizen
n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn:
inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen,
indweller]
2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field
and forest"; "denizens of the deep"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "denizen":
addressee, artist-in-residence, citizen, colonize, dweller,
empeople, frequenter, habitant, haunter, house detective,
incumbent, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient,
intern, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, national, occupant,
occupier, people, plant, populate, residencer, resident,
resident physician, residentiary, resider, settle, settle in,
sojourner, subject, tenant
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
DENIZEN, English law. An alien born, who has obtained, ex donatione legis,
letters patent to make him au English subject.
2. He is intermediate between a natural born subject and an alien. He
may. take lands by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot, but he is
incapable of taking by inheritance. 1 Bl. Com. 374. In the United States
there is no such civil condition.