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den⋅i⋅zen

  [den-uh-zuhn]
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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.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME denisein < AF, equiv. to deinz within (OF; see dedans ) + -ein -an

Related forms:
den⋅i⋅za⋅tion, den⋅i⋅zen⋅a⋅tion, noun
den⋅i⋅zen⋅ship, noun
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den·i·zen   (děn'ĭ-zən)   
n.  
  1. An inhabitant; a resident: denizens of Monte Carlo.
  2. One that frequents a particular place: a bar and its denizens.
  3. Ecology An animal or a plant naturalized in a region.
  4. Chiefly British A foreigner who is granted rights of residence and sometimes of citizenship.
tr.v.   den·i·zened, den·i·zen·ing, den·i·zens Chiefly British
To make a denizen of; grant rights of residence to.

[Middle English denisein, from Anglo-Norman denzein, from deinz, within, from Late Latin deintus, from within; see dedans.]
den'i·zen·a'tion n.
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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.

Denizens of their own free, independent state. --Sir W. Scott.

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.

3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. --Dryden.

Denizen

Den"i*zen\, v. t. 1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

As soon as denizened, they domineer. --Dryden.

2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. --J. D. Hooker.
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denizen 
1419, from Anglo-Fr. deinzein, from deinz "within, inside," from L.L. deintus, from de- "from" + intus "within."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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