Resident vs Denizen - What's the difference?
resident | denizen | Synonyms |
Person]], animal or plant [[live, living at a location or in an area.
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A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
A graduated medical student who is receiving advanced training in a specialty.
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Davenant
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.
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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 synonym of resident.
As nouns the difference between resident and denizen
is that resident is person, animal or plant living at a location or in an area while denizen is an inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.As an adjective resident
is dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.As a verb denizen is
to grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.resident
English
(wikipedia resident)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* permanent residentAdjective
(en adjective)- resident in the city or in the country
- He is our resident computer expert.
- stable and resident like a rock
- one there still resident as day and night
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* ----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.