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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Denizen \Den"i*zen\ (d[e^]n"[i^]*z'n), n. [OF. denzein deinzein prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to forain foreign, and fr denz within, F. dans, fr L. de intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in See {In}, and cf {Foreign}.] 1. A dweller; an inhabitant. ``Denizens of air.'' --Pope. Denizens of their own free independent state. --Sir W. Scott. 2. 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. 3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country. Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Denizen \Den"i*zen\, v. t. 1. To constitute one a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges. As soon as denizened they domineer. --Dryden. 2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants. There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. --J. D. Hooker. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: denizen n : a person who lives in a particular place [syn: {inhabitant}, {dweller}]
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