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Denizen vs Villager - What's the difference?

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Denizen is a related term of villager.


As nouns the difference between denizen and villager

is that denizen is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in while villager is a person who lives in, or comes from, a village.

As a verb denizen

is (british) to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.

denizen

English

(wikipedia denizen)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
    • The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
    • 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.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Denizens of their own free, independent state.
  • One who frequents a place.
    • The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
  • * {{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 citation
    • , passage=As a fan of West Ham United I’m always looking to legitimise my dislike of Chelsea FC. And on first viewing, this week’s jarring retro-Métro-racism seems like a good reason to condemn the denizens of Stamford Bridge.}}
  • (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
    • 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.
  • (biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
    • 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) regular

    Derived terms

    * denization

    Related terms

    * citizen

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (British) To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
    • He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
  • * Dryden
    • As soon as denizened , they domineer.
  • To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
  • * J. D. Hooker
    • There were a few islets in the sand and these were at once denizened by various weeds.

    villager

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (label) A worker unit (synonyms: peasant, peon, serf).