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Definition of denizen in English: denizennoun ˈdɛnɪz(ə)nˈdɛnəzən humorous, formal 1A person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place. denizens of field and forest Example sentencesExamples - The beautiful natural forests in which several species of animals and birds are denizens rank high among the natural resources.
- If your yard is wet, however, plant bog plants and denizens of the damp.
- Evidently the good denizens of the street were too busy fretting about the economy to concern themselves with such small geographical matters.
- At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.
- We talk for quite a while, their cigarettes aglow, while I watch a local denizen pass by on the sidewalk three times.
- With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.
- One of the stranger denizens of the coastal sandy plains we found was Euphorbia ipecacuanhae.
- He would play an equal part in rearing our children and help them become good denizens of the country.
- Penguins are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere where they are oceanic or coastal denizens.
- Deep sea denizens such as the feather star inhabit caves in the wall.
- I'd like to take you on a little jaunt through my backyard here in Ithaca to meet some of the plant denizens I spend much of my time admiring.
- Their fleshy leaves readily absorb and retain moisture because most of these plants are denizens of the desert.
- Catering to the denizens ' demand for water is a tough proposition for local governing bodies.
- Left to his own devices, the denizen of hamburger restaurants would eat fresh carrots and brown rice, his natural choices.
- We'd like to think about our tools, ideas and practices as if we were native denizens of some wiser and more advanced civilization!
- Then there are the denizens of the juke joint, shouting through their drunkenness that they'll be at confessional on Sunday morning.
- Ground pine is a rare denizen on the North Downs.
- For this play to work, as it did so well in Cunningham, you need a strong, activist local community whose denizens talk across partisan political lines.
- Kit Keith, a longtime St. Louis resident now based in Brooklyn, is a denizen of thrift shops, where she locates such early 1950s treasures as linoleum samples, flowered wallpaper and aging account ledgers.
- As a Roman military outpost, and with the aid of its uncouth denizens, the island was used as a staging point for the invasion of Great Britain.
Synonyms inhabitant, resident, townsman, townswoman, native, local occupier, occupant, dweller informal, derogatory local yokel historical burgher, burgess rare habitant, residentiary, oppidan, indweller - 1.1British historical A foreigner allowed certain rights in their adopted country.
Example sentencesExamples - The denizen was not a citizen because he did not have any political rights: he could not be a member of parliament or hold any civil or military office.
- The denizen was not a citizen nor an alien: but had a status akin to permanent residency today.
Derivatives noun From the constitution of government we get the rights of denizenship, including the rights to remain on and return to the location of our birth, and citizenship, including the rights of voting and holding office. Example sentencesExamples - In the case that there is no institution concerning denizenship in the country concerned but there is the equivalent right to the denizenship it will be acknowledged as denizenship.
- Since we are far from a global citizenship, we are aware of the fact that a status grounded on denizenship will also exclude some residents in Europe.
- Second, a number of questions about the relationship between migrants and states are raised by the continually changing nature of membership seen in dramatic increases in dual citizenship and denizenship.
- The sovereign cannot make a citizen by any act of his own; he can confer denizenship, but this does not make a man either a citizen or subject.
Origin Late Middle English deynseyn, via Anglo-Norman French from Old French deinz 'within' (from Latin de 'from' + intus 'within') + -ein (from Latin -aneus '-aneous'). The change in the form of the word was due to association with citizen. Definition of denizen in US English: denizennounˈdenəzənˈdɛnəzən formal, humorous 1An inhabitant or occupant of a particular place. denizens of field and forest Example sentencesExamples - If your yard is wet, however, plant bog plants and denizens of the damp.
- Evidently the good denizens of the street were too busy fretting about the economy to concern themselves with such small geographical matters.
- One of the stranger denizens of the coastal sandy plains we found was Euphorbia ipecacuanhae.
- Catering to the denizens ' demand for water is a tough proposition for local governing bodies.
- I'd like to take you on a little jaunt through my backyard here in Ithaca to meet some of the plant denizens I spend much of my time admiring.
- The beautiful natural forests in which several species of animals and birds are denizens rank high among the natural resources.
- We talk for quite a while, their cigarettes aglow, while I watch a local denizen pass by on the sidewalk three times.
- Their fleshy leaves readily absorb and retain moisture because most of these plants are denizens of the desert.
- Then there are the denizens of the juke joint, shouting through their drunkenness that they'll be at confessional on Sunday morning.
- He would play an equal part in rearing our children and help them become good denizens of the country.
- Left to his own devices, the denizen of hamburger restaurants would eat fresh carrots and brown rice, his natural choices.
- Deep sea denizens such as the feather star inhabit caves in the wall.
- We'd like to think about our tools, ideas and practices as if we were native denizens of some wiser and more advanced civilization!
- For this play to work, as it did so well in Cunningham, you need a strong, activist local community whose denizens talk across partisan political lines.
- Penguins are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere where they are oceanic or coastal denizens.
- Kit Keith, a longtime St. Louis resident now based in Brooklyn, is a denizen of thrift shops, where she locates such early 1950s treasures as linoleum samples, flowered wallpaper and aging account ledgers.
- Ground pine is a rare denizen on the North Downs.
- With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.
- At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.
- As a Roman military outpost, and with the aid of its uncouth denizens, the island was used as a staging point for the invasion of Great Britain.
Synonyms inhabitant, resident, townsman, townswoman, native, local - 1.1British historical A foreigner allowed certain rights in the adopted country.
Example sentencesExamples - The denizen was not a citizen nor an alien: but had a status akin to permanent residency today.
- The denizen was not a citizen because he did not have any political rights: he could not be a member of parliament or hold any civil or military office.
Origin Late Middle English deynseyn, via Anglo-Norman French from Old French deinz ‘within’ (from Latin de ‘from’ + intus ‘within’) + -ein (from Latin -aneus ‘-aneous’). The change in the form of the word was due to association with citizen. |