denizens

Meaning of denizens

plural noun
  1. a person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place.
    denizens of field and forest

late Middle English deynseyn, via Anglo-Norman French from Old French deinz ‘within’ (from Latin de ‘from’ + intus ‘within’) + -ein (from Latin -aneus ‘-aneous’). The change in the form of the word was due to association with citizen.

Information about denizens

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of denizens is: denizen.
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Hyphenation of denizens

denizens

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • denizens is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

denizens synonyms

Meaning a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place:

inhabitant

Meaning a person who lives somewhere permanently or on a long-term basis:

resident

Meaning a male resident of a particular town or city (often used to contrast with a visitor or a person living in the country):

townsman

Meaning a female resident of a particular town or city:

townswoman

Meaning a person born in a specified place or associated with a place by birth, whether subsequently resident there or not:

native

Meaning an inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood:

local

Meaning a person or company residing in or using a property as its owner or tenant, or (illegally) as a squatter:

occupier

Meaning a person who resides or is present in a house, vehicle, seat, etc., at a given time:

occupant

Meaning a person or animal that lives in or at a specified place:

dweller

Meaning a citizen of a town or city, typically a member of the wealthy bourgeoisie:

burgher

Meaning an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship:

burgess

Meaning an inhabitant:

habitant

Meaning a residentiary canon:

residentiary

Meaning (at Eton College) a pupil who boards in town rather than in the school itself:

oppidan

Words that rhyme with denizens

Zens, brazens, khazens, weazens, zazens, bedizens, citizens, dizens, endenizens, hizens, kaizens, mizens, netizens, noncitizens, wizens, Cozens, cozens, dozens, lozens, Darzens, Cozzens, chazzens, fizzens, gizzens, mizzens, wizzens

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