Denizen

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  denizen
       n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: {inhabitant},
             {dweller}, {indweller}]
       2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of
          field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.