denizen

Noun
US[den-uh-zuhn]/ˈdɛnəzən/3 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. a person who inhabits a particular placeSynonyms: inhabitanthabitantdwellerindwellerType of actor, doerKinds American, resident, Northerner, villager, European, Occidental, westerner, Nazarene, Asian, Austronesian +19 more
  2. a plant or animal naturalized in a region“denizens of field and forest”“denizens of the deep”Type of organism, being
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Den′i·zen (dĕn′ĭ-z'n), noun

Origin: 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.” Alexander Pope

Denizens of their own free, independent state.— Sir Walter Scott

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.

3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.— John Dryden

Den′i·zen transitive verb

1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

As soon as denizened, they domineer.— John Dryden

2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds.— Joseph Dalton Hooker

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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