denizen

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.

   The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.

2. noun One who frequents a place.

   The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.

3. noun A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

   Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.

4. noun An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.

   The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.

5. noun A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
6. verb To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.

   He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.

7. verb To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Similar words

inhabitant dweller resider citizen habitant enhabitant inhabitative resident domiciliary demonym

Often followed by

of in and is or who status from

Word family

denizens