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noun

Denizen n.

A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." "Denizens of their own free, independent state."

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.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country. "Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes."

verb

Denizen v. t.

To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. "As soon as denizened, they domineer."

To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. "There (islets) were at once denizened by various weeds."

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Etymology of 'Denizen'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Denizen" Quotes from Famous Books

... well-chosen messenger. But it was too late for that now. He had faced the priest and had escaped from him with the degradation of a few tears. Now he was in the presence of the lioness and her young. The lioness had claimed him as a denizen of the forest; and, would he yield to her, she no doubt would be very tender to him. But, as he was resolved not to yield, he began to find that he had been wrong to enter her den. As he looked at her, knowing that she was at ...

— An Eye for an Eye • Anthony Trollope

... mollified the mother. She even looked proudly around at the clustering neighbors, for by now every denizen of Darktown had apparently been drawn to the spot, all wild to hear what had happened. Her look was in the shape of a challenge. It seemed to say: "Dere now, what do yuh good-for-nothin' coons think of my Brutus, after hearin' dese white boys say as how he's ...

— The Chums of Scranton High - Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight • Donald Ferguson

... in front of the hotels; a few equestrians; as many pedestrians; a sprinkling of the sable sons of the soil in all imaginable variety of costumes, composed of the left-off garments of their fair-skinned brethren; here, a gigantic denizen of the forest standing in the centre of a street, raising his majestic head high above the settlement, and seeming to look down with lofty contempt on the scenes enacted beneath him; there, the charred stump of another tree, with its semi-calcined trunk lying by its side, where ...

— Fern Vale (Volume 1) - or the Queensland Squatter • Colin Munro

... the pageants and diversions of autumn. She saw some magnificent processions of clergy, she was welcomed at a civic banquet and drank of the loving cup, and she beheld the Lord Mayor's Show in all its picturesque glory of emblazoned barges on the river. In fact, she found the position of denizen of an alderman's household so very agreeable that she did her best to make it a permanency. Nay, Dennet soon found that she considered herself to be waiting there and keeping guard till her son's return should establish her there, ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... Geo. Long, a denizen of the underworld, a victim of strong drink, cocaine, opium and morphine, ruined in body and soul, was redeemed and freed from these desperate vices, and made a ...

— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams

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