Denizen

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An inhabitant; a resident: denizens of Monte Carlo.
  • n. One that frequents a particular place: a bar and its denizens.
  • n. Ecology An animal or a plant naturalized in a region.
  • n. Chiefly British A foreigner who is granted rights of residence and sometimes of citizenship.
  • v. Chiefly British To make a denizen of; grant rights of residence to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
  • n. One who frequents a place.
  • n. A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
  • n. Used to describe the range or habitat of an animal or plant.
  • v. To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
  • v. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A dweller; an inhabitant.
  • n. 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.
  • n. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
  • v. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
  • v. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who inhabits a particular place
  • n. a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  • Verb Form
    denizened    denizening    denizens   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    being    organism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dweller    inhabitant    native    resident    regular   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inhabitant    predator    dweller    confine    occupant    monster    wanderer    being    ruler    rodent