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denizenship

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den⋅i⋅zen

[den-uh-zuhn]
–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


den⋅i⋅za⋅tion, den⋅i⋅zen⋅a⋅tion, noun
den⋅i⋅zen⋅ship, noun
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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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