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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
addressee, artist-in-residence, citizen, colonize, dweller, empeople, frequenter, habitant, haunter, house detective, incumbent, inhabit, inhabitant, inhabiter, inmate, inpatient, intern, live-in maid, liver, locum tenens, national, occupant, occupier, people, plant, populate, residencer, resident, resident physician, residentiary, resider, settle, settle in, sojourner, subject, tenant
Dictionary Results for denizen:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
denizen
    n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn:
         inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen,
         indweller]
    2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field
       and forest"; "denizens of the deep"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Denizen \Den"i*zen\ (d[e^]n"[i^]*z'n), n. [OF. denzein,
   deinzein, prop., one living (a city or country); opposed to
   forain foreign, and fr. denz within, F. dans, fr. L. de
   intus, prop., from within, intus being from in in. See In,
   and cf. Foreign.]
   1. A dweller; an inhabitant. "Denizens of air." --Pope.
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            Denizens of their own free, independent state. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
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   2. One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the
      rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by
      birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
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   3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
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            Ye gods,
            Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Denizen \Den"i*zen\, v. t.
   1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with
      certain rights and privileges.
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            As soon as denizened, they domineer.  --Dryden.
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   2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or
      naturalized occupants.
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            There [islets] were at once denizened by various
            weeds.                                --J. D.
                                                  Hooker.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
DENIZEN, English law. An alien born, who has obtained, ex donatione legis, 
letters patent to make him au English subject. 
     2. He is intermediate between a natural born subject and an alien. He 
may. take lands by purchase or devise, which an alien cannot, but he is 
incapable of taking by inheritance. 1 Bl. Com. 374. In the United States 
there is no such civil condition. 



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