denizen

Meanings

Noun

• An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
• 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.

Verb

• To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
• To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Related

Similar words

• dweller, inhabitant, native, resident
• regular

Origin

• From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz + -ein, from Late Latin deintus, whence French dans.