DENIZEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denizen mean? 

• DENIZEN (noun)
  The noun DENIZEN has 2 senses:

1. a person who inhabits a particular place

2. a plant or animal naturalized in a region

  Familiarity information: DENIZEN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENIZEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who inhabits a particular place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant

Hypernyms ("denizen" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "denizen"):

Latin (an inhabitant of ancient Latium)

westerner (an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S.)

villager (one who has lived in a village most of their life)

Trinidadian (inhabitant or native of Trinidad)

earthling; earthman; tellurian; worldling (an inhabitant of the earth)

occupant; occupier; resident (someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there)

plainsman (an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America))

Phrygian (a native or inhabitant of Phrygia)

Philistine (a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC)

Occidental (a native inhabitant of the Occident)

Numidian (an inhabitant of ancient Numidia)

Northerner (an inhabitant of the North)

Nazarene (an inhabitant of Nazareth)

marcher (an inhabitant of a border district)

liver (someone who lives in a place)

Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia)

landlubber; landman; landsman (a person who lives and works on land)

island-dweller; islander (an inhabitant of an island)

Hittite (a member of an ancient people who inhabited Anatolia and northern Syria about 2000 to 1200 BC)

Galilaean; Galilean (an inhabitant of Galilee (an epithet of Jesus Christ))

easterner (an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S.)

cottage dweller; cottager (someone who lives in a cottage)

borderer (an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England))

Alsatian (a native or inhabitant of Alsace)

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)

American (a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country)

Kiwi; New Zealander (a native or inhabitant of New Zealand)

Austronesian (a native or inhabitant of Austronesia)

Aussie; Australian (a native or inhabitant of Australia)

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plant or animal naturalized in a region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Context example:

denizens of the deep

Hypernyms ("denizen" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

 Context examples 

Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The denizens of the forest cannot, of course, expect to participate in the refinements of the land of the Free.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As Mit-sah and Kloo-kooch had belonged to Grey Beaver, sharing his food, his fire, and his blankets, so now, at Sierra Vista, belonged to the love-master all the denizens of the house.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Some former denizen of the cabin had decorated its walls with illustrations torn from magazines and newspapers, and it was these illustrations that had held Sitka Charley's attention from the moment of our arrival two hours before.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

"He becomes very sentimental sometimes," explained Gatsby. "This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York—a denizen of Broadway."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)