Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, historical, transitive)To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.

    He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.

  2. (transitive)To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

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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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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Forms

denizens, denizening, denizened, denizened
Base formdenizen · to denizen
3rd person singulardenizens
Present participledenizening
Past simpledenizened
Past participledenizened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydenizen
he, she, itdenizens

Past simpleLesson

all personsdenizened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave denizened
he, she, ithas denizened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill denizen

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
denierdenigratedenimB2denominationdenominatordenoteC2denounceC2
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