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denizens

[den-uh-zuhn]

noun

an inhabitant; resident.

a person who regularly frequents a place; habitué: the denizens of a local bar.

British. an alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country.

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)

to make a denizen of.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English denisein < Anglo-French, equivalent to deinz within (Old French; see dedans) + -ein -an

Related forms

den·i·za·tion, den·i·zen·a·tion, noun

den·i·zen·ship, noun

un·den·i·zened, adjective

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Example Sentences

It took years to discover the true landscape of that word, with its night-prowling denizens and emotional quicksand.

Apparently there's a wildlife refuge near an old power plant whose denizens grow exceeding large.

The vents are both widely spaced and transient, which means their denizens live a precarious existence.

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It took years to discover the true landscape of that word, with its night-prowling denizens and emotional quicksand.

Apparently there's a wildlife refuge near an old power plant whose denizens grow exceeding large.

The vents are both widely spaced and transient, which means their denizens live a precarious existence.

But the animal's miniscule size makes it a juicy target for the ocean's larger denizens.

The richer denizens of the world consume more of everything-from water to precious metals.

However, there are a few more denizens of the internet than might offer up the same information to a server.

From the point of view of its own denizens it is a world of varied adventure and strange compulsion.

All other denizens of the same hallway must speak with a united voice.

It sounds wrenching: peaceful denizens of a simple land in harmony with their environment, paying for others' wastefulness.

Wood storks are tall, white denizens of freshwater or brackish wetlands and swamps.

Balcombe makes an engaging, if not entirely convincing, case for the lowliest denizens of the animal kingdom.

Now a backlash against this cyber myth has begun, even among cyberspace's own denizens.

Knowing about the origins and habits and lifecycles of the green denizens of our yards doubles the joy.

When other newsgroup denizens pointed out the recklessness of his plan, he gave it up as too risky to innocent bystanders.

Awesome photos your close interaction with the animals bring to light the true nature of these denizens of the open sea.

Some newsroom denizens reacted with skepticism, others were flat-out hostile, and some were simply baffled.

Its denizens are humans, demihumans and humanoids, the descendants of the snake peoples' slaves.

Though often misperceived as villainous denizens of the deep, these top predators play an.

Written by someone who worked as a file clerk and sometime music critic and illustrated by denizens of top-notch artists.

As the country digs itself out of the ruins of the war, the building's denizens change as more consumer goods become available.

Louis, the terrified denizens struggle to escape the all-consuming void by any means necessary.

True denizens of the borderland, they remind us that the future is uncertain and the fate of the soul is unknown.

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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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"Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: "If you truly love me, kill the bartender.""

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