Denizen vs Lodger - What's the difference?
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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* Sir Walter Scott
One who frequents a place.
* {{quote-news, author=(Russell Brand), title=Let’s kick cold profiteering out of football, along with racism, work=(The Guardian) (London), date=20 February 2015
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(British, obsolete) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
* 1765 , (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England), Book 1, Chapter X, p. 374
(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
(British) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
* Dryden
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
* J. D. Hooker
Denizen is a related term of lodger.
As nouns the difference between denizen and lodger
is that denizen is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in while lodger is a person who lodges in another's house (compare (tenant)).As a verb denizen
is (british) to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.denizen
English
(wikipedia denizen)Noun
(en noun)- The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
- The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that it was in mortal combat with some other denizen of the fierce wood. Suddenly these cries ceased, and the silence of death reigned throughout the jungle.
- Denizens of their own free, independent state.
- The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
citation
- A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.''
- Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
- The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
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 (denization).Synonyms
* (inhabitant of a place) inhabitant, native, resident * (one who frequents a place) regularDerived terms
* denizationVerb
(en verb)- He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
- As soon as denizened , they domineer.
- There were a few islets in the sand and these were at once denizened by various weeds.