Denizen

Quick meaning: Denizen is a noun meaning An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

Meaning

An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

More Meanings

1. One who frequents a place.
2. (biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
3. (linguistics) A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
4. (transitive, British, historical) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
5. (transitive) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
6. (British, historical) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

Example Sentences

The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.

The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.

A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.

He was well known to the sallow denizens of the lane; for such of them as were on the look-out to buy or sell, nodded, familiarly, as he passed along.

Word Forms

• denizens
• denizening
• denizened

Synonyms for denizen

Depending on context, synonyms include dweller, inhabitant, native, resident, regular.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inhabitant, dweller, resider, citizen, habitant, enhabitant.

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