Meaning

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

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

    Bewohner, Bewohnerin

    жи́тельžítelʹ, жи́тельницаžítelʹnica, обита́тельobitátelʹ

    a person who inhabits a particular place

  2. One who frequents a place.

    The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.

    Stammgast, Stammgästin

    завсегда́тайzavsegdátaj

  3. (UK, historical)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.

    teilweise eingebürgerter Ausländer

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

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

    a plant or animal naturalized in a region

  5. A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.

    Bewohner

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Tom is a denizen of the Internet.

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  2. Elsewhere we watch large ocean predators and tiny denizens of the sea like the strangely alien nudibranch and Christmas tree worms.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in:
one who frequents a place:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in:
one who frequents a place:
(UK) a citizen naturalized through letters patent:

Origin

From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from

From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans.

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