OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21448

denizen

/ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
habitante
An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
[…] adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch b…
habitual
One who frequents a place.
He was well known to the sallow denizens of the lane; for such of them as were on the look-out to buy or sell, nodded, familiarly, as he passed along.
The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
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