From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Denizen \Den"i*zen\ (d[e^]n"[i^]*z'n), noun [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.
Denizens of their own free, independent state. --Sir W. Scott.
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.
3. One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
Ye gods, Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Denizen \Den"i*zen\, verb (used with an object)
1. To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
As soon as denizened, they domineer. --Dryden.
2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds. --J. D. Hooker.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: {inhabitant}, {dweller}, {indweller}]
2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "denizen": 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
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