a person who regularly frequents a place; habitué:
the denizens of a local bar.
3.
British. an alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country.
4.
anything adapted to a new place, condition, etc., as an animal or plant not indigenous to a place but successfully naturalized.
verb (used with object)
5.
to make a denizen of.
Origin
1425-75;late Middle Englishdenisein < Anglo-French, equivalent to deinz within (Old French; see dedans) + -ein-an
Related forms
denization, denizenation, noun
denizenship, noun
undenizened, adjective
Examples from the web for denizen
He is a survival from a vanished world, a denizen of the long cold of which he may yet be the returning harbinger.
In 1911, the Louvre's most famous denizen disappeared.
Privately he wonders if a city denizen has a right to a car at all, if he cannot house it off the street.
Each of its denizens comes through with his own particular ways and means .
My point of view is that of a long-time denizen of national laboratories.
For a media-soaked denizen of our postindustrial age, it would be difficult to imagine anything more banal than that play-by-play.
At least one ground-floor denizen isn't looking forward to selling.
Walking it with a longtime denizen offers a chance to bring alive some of that history.
As another Hamptons denizen wrote more than 70 years ago, the very rich are different from you and me.
Wreath goldenrod is another frequent denizen of our open, deciduous woods.
British Dictionary definitions for denizen
denizen
/ˈdɛnɪzən/
noun
1.
an inhabitant; occupant; resident
2.
(Brit) an individual permanently resident in a foreign country where he enjoys certain rights of citizenship
3.
a plant or animal established in a place to which it is not native
4.
a naturalized foreign word
verb
5.
(transitive) to make a denizen
Word Origin
C15: from Anglo-French denisein, from Old French denzein, from denz within, from Latin de intus from within
Word Origin and History for denizen
n.
early 15c., from Anglo-French deinzein, from deinz "within, inside," from Late Latin deintus, from de- "from" + intus "within" (see ento-). Historically, an alien admitted to certain rights of citizenship; a naturalized citizen.