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noun
1.
an inhabitant; resident.
2.
a person who regularly frequents a place; habitué: the denizens of a local bar.
3.
British. an alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country.
4.
anything adapted to a new place, condition, etc., as an animal or plant not indigenous to a place but successfully naturalized.
verb (used with object)
5.
to make a denizen of.
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Example Sentences
- He is a survival from a vanished world, a denizen of the long cold of which he may yet be the returning harbinger.
- In 1911, the Louvre's most famous denizen disappeared.
- Privately he wonders if a city denizen has a right to a car at all, if he cannot house it off the street.
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Word Origin & History
denizen
1419, from Anglo-Fr. deinzein, from deinz "within, inside," from L.L. deintus, from de- "from" + intus "within."
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