denizen

Etymology
From, from , from , from , whence 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
 * 2) One who frequents a place.
 * 3)  A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
 * 4) * 1548,, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, London, The xiiii yere,
 * Then by commaundement wer all Fre[n]chemen and Scottes imprisoned and the goodes seazed, and all suche as were denizens were commaunded to shewe their letters patentes
 * 1) * 1765,, , Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
 * A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.
 * 1) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p.xlv,
 * All free persons were authorized and permitted to transport themselves, their families, and goods to Jamaica, from any part of the British dominions; and their children born in Jamaica were declared free denizens of England, entitled to the same privileges as free born subjects of England.
 * Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
 * 1)  An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
 * The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
 * 1)  A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
 * 1) * 1765,, , Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
 * A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.
 * 1) * 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p.xlv,
 * All free persons were authorized and permitted to transport themselves, their families, and goods to Jamaica, from any part of the British dominions; and their children born in Jamaica were declared free denizens of England, entitled to the same privileges as free born subjects of England.
 * Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
 * 1)  An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
 * The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
 * 1)  A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.

Usage notes
As a British legal category, used between 13th and 19th century (mentioned but not used in 20th century), made obsolete by naturalisation – see.

Translations

 * Bashkir: йәшәүсе, тороусы
 * Bulgarian: жи́тел,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎡᎯ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მცხოვრები, მკვიდრი, მაცხოვრებელი
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:, מתנחל,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Macedonian: жител
 * Norwegian: beboer,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: житељ
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: постоянен посетител
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: stálý host,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, Stammgästin
 * Norwegian: stamgjest
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: становник
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: натурализиран чужденец
 * Dutch:
 * German: teilweise eingebürgerter Ausländer
 * Pashto: همسایه


 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: ендем


 * Maori: kupu mino


 * Japanese:

Verb

 * 1)  To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
 * 2) * 1693, (translator), The  of , London: Jacob Tonson, The Third Satyr, p.38,
 * Poor Refugies at first, they purchase here:
 * And, soon as Denizen’d, they domineer.
 * 1)  To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
 * 2) * 1849,, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India” in (editor), Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, Volume 1, p.85,
 * There were a few islets in the sand . These were at once denizened by the, , , Gnaphalium luteoalbum and two other species.
 * 1) * 1849,, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India” in (editor), Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, Volume 1, p.85,
 * There were a few islets in the sand . These were at once denizened by the, , , Gnaphalium luteoalbum and two other species.