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/dˈɛnəzən/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Denizen" Quotes from Famous Books

... was revolving more slowly now, and before the end of the line was reached, had ceased altogether. Then the girl, a light of triumph in her eyes, began to wind in her prize. It was a slow task and a hard one, for when the denizen of the river found he had again encountered resistance, he renewed his struggle for freedom. Once he nearly jerked the girl off the bank into the water, greatly to the delight of Jim and Gerald, who had settled in a comfortable nook under the trees with the avowed intention of being "in at the ...

— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond

... flaming torches aloft, the restive horses plunging in frantic terror of the fiery furnace in the depths of the brake, the leaping sheets of flame, the tumultuous clouds of smoke. Oh, a terrible fate, had the forlorn fugitive sought refuge here! Let us hope that no poor denizen of the brake, bear or panther or fox, dazed by the tumult and the terror, forgot which way ...

— The Crucial Moment - 1911 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

... especially music. Out of an art, a man may be so trivial you would mistake him for an imbecile,—at best a grown infant. Put him into his art, and how high he soars above you! How quietly he enters into a heaven of which he has become a denizen, and unlocking the gates with his golden key, admits you to follow, a humble ...

— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... the last thing that held me in sympathy with any remnant or belonging of the old life. Henceforth that life and all that appertains to it are as dead to me and as far removed from me as if I were become a denizen ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 7. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... he replied, "but I should think very few in this world are ever permitted to pass behind both canopies. To me it seems impossible that I should have ceased so suddenly to be a denizen of the one, and even more impossible that I should ever have caught a ...

— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim

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