noun

• 1 formal, humorous A person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.

  ‘denizens of field and forest’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I'd like to take you on a little jaunt through my backyard here in Ithaca to meet some of the plant denizens I spend much of my time admiring.’
  • ‘Their fleshy leaves readily absorb and retain moisture because most of these plants are denizens of the desert.’
  • ‘If your yard is wet, however, plant bog plants and denizens of the damp.’
  • ‘The beautiful natural forests in which several species of animals and birds are denizens rank high among the natural resources.’
  • ‘As a Roman military outpost, and with the aid of its uncouth denizens, the island was used as a staging point for the invasion of Great Britain.’
  • ‘We'd like to think about our tools, ideas and practices as if we were native denizens of some wiser and more advanced civilization!’
  • ‘He would play an equal part in rearing our children and help them become good denizens of the country.’
  • ‘At heart, though, the ferret is a denizen of the countryside, a weasel closely related to the European polecat and the mink.’
  • ‘Ground pine is a rare denizen on the North Downs.’
  • ‘For this play to work, as it did so well in Cunningham, you need a strong, activist local community whose denizens talk across partisan political lines.’
  • ‘Kit Keith, a longtime St. Louis resident now based in Brooklyn, is a denizen of thrift shops, where she locates such early 1950s treasures as linoleum samples, flowered wallpaper and aging account ledgers.’
  • ‘One of the stranger denizens of the coastal sandy plains we found was Euphorbia ipecacuanhae.’
  • ‘We talk for quite a while, their cigarettes aglow, while I watch a local denizen pass by on the sidewalk three times.’
  • ‘With the progress of civilization all over the world, forest dwellers that were hunters and fruit gatherers have turned into denizens of the concrete jungle.’
  • ‘Penguins are restricted to the Southern Hemisphere where they are oceanic or coastal denizens.’
  • ‘Catering to the denizens ' demand for water is a tough proposition for local governing bodies.’
  • ‘Left to his own devices, the denizen of hamburger restaurants would eat fresh carrots and brown rice, his natural choices.’
  • ‘Deep sea denizens such as the feather star inhabit caves in the wall.’
  • ‘Then there are the denizens of the juke joint, shouting through their drunkenness that they'll be at confessional on Sunday morning.’
  • ‘Evidently the good denizens of the street were too busy fretting about the economy to concern themselves with such small geographical matters.’

  Synonyms

  inhabitant, resident, townsman, townswoman, native, local

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  1. 1.1British historical A foreigner allowed certain rights in their adopted country.
     ‘The denizen was not a citizen because he did not have any political rights: he could not be a member of parliament or hold any civil or military office.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The denizen was not a citizen nor an alien: but had a status akin to permanent residency today.’