denizen

Plural: denizens

Noun

• a person who inhabits a particular place
• a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  • "denizens of field and forest"
  • "denizens of the deep"
• An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
• One who frequents a place.
• A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
• An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
• A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.

Verb

Verb Forms: denizened, denizening, denizens

• To inhabit or make a citizen of a specific place.
• To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
• To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Examples

• He tried to denizen the triple-word score square with his high-value ’Z’ tile.
• He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
• The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
• The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
• The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.

Synonyms

dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, denizen, native, regular, resident

Related Words

citizen, netizen

Anagrams of denizen