denizen
Meaning of denizen
noun
- a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.
denizens of field and forest
late Middle English deynseyn, via Anglo-Norman French from Old French deinz ‘within’ (from Latin de ‘from’ + intus ‘within’) + -ein (from Latin -aneus ‘-aneous’). The change in the form of the word was due to association with citizen.
Information about denizen
- It is a name.
- The plural form of denizen is: denizens.
- Languages in which denizen is used:
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Hyphenation of denizen
denizen
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- denizen is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
denizen synonyms
Meaning inhabitant:
inhabitant, habitant, dweller, indweller
Meaning a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis:
Meaning a male resident of a particular town or city (often used to contrast with a visitor or a person living in the country):
Meaning a female resident of a particular town or city:
Meaning a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not:
Meaning an inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood:
Meaning a person or company residing in or using a property as its owner or tenant, or (illegally) as a squatter:
Meaning a person who resides or is present in a house, vehicle, seat, etc., at a given time:
Meaning a citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie:
Meaning an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship:
Meaning a residentiary canon:
Meaning (at Eton College) a pupil who boards in town rather than in the school itself:
Words that rhyme with denizen
Saizen, kaizen, Bizen, bedizen, dizen, Hizen, hizen, mizen, endenizen, khlortrianizen, citizen, cocitizen, concitizen, netizen, noncitizen, protocitizen, semicitizen, uncitizen, undercitizen, wizen
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