Within the city franchise; having acquired certain rights or privileges of citizenship.n. A stranger admitted to residence and certain rights in a foreign country; in English law, an alien admitted to citizenship by the sovereign's letters patent, but ineligible to any public office. The word has a similar meaning in South Carolina.n. A citizen; a dweller; an inhabitant.To make a denizen; admit to residence with certain rights and privileges; endenizen.n. In botany, a plant suspected to be of foreign origin, though behaving as if indigenous.