Word Finder - denizens

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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.

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The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.

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One who frequents a place.

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The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.

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A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

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Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.

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An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.

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The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.

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A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language.

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To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.

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He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.

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To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Coyotes and jack-rabbits are the most numerous denizens of the Columbia plain.

Antelopes, hares and occasionally the lynx, fox, deer, rats, vultures, crows, ravens, hawks, with lizards are other denizens of the borders of the deserts.

Only one problem - the new denizens of this master caff all seem to be graphic designers, supermodels and trendy vicars.

It is exceedingly voracious, feeding on the smaller denizens of the ocean - fish, crustaceans, worms and molluscs, and greedily taking almost any bait the fisherman chooses to employ.

The fact that someone like Lauren Curtis has risen through the ranks of Myspace.com denizens speaks volumes about teenagers and young adults.

As a result, her school and her home town were irresistible destinations for vampires, demons, and other foul denizens of evil.

Shortly before this date the palaces both of Cnossus and Phaestus had undergone a great destruction, and though during the ensuing period both these royal residences were partially reoccupied it was for the most part at any rate by poorer denizens, and their great days as palaces were over for ever.

In winter, for example, when the northern monsoon begins to blow, numbers of denizens of the Sea of Okhotsk swim southward to the more genial waters of north Japan; and in summer the Indian Ocean and the Malayan archipelago send to her southern coasts a crowd of emigrants which turn homeward again at the approach of winter.

Scopas, in a famous group, represented him surrounded by the denizens of the sea, escorting Achilles to the islands of the blest.

Corydoras and Ancistrus catfish make excellent denizens for the bottom level of the aquarium.

In their watchful silence, and in their rapt attention, do these denizens of the borderlands make known their approbation.

Are the new denizens of this area living among the ghosts of the past?

The first travelers to Mars or the first long-term denizens of a lunar base would confront very hostile environments.

The backdrop allows her to consider the difficulties of modern relationships for denizens of a sprawling metropolis and its sinister underbelly.

In 1136 the army of Griffith ap Rhys met with a large English force near Cardigan, composed of the denizens of the South Wales castles and of the hated Flemish colonists, who had been lately planted by Henry I.

Because of the plant's hardiness, however, it has been spread throughout the world by house plant aficionados, feng shui denizens, and curious horticulturists.

Watch full episodes of True Blood and keep up with the denizens of Bon Temps, Louisiana.

Perhaps our fascination with the denizens of ancient Egypt will endure as long as the pyramids themselves?

Meanwhile, Nemo has befriended the other denizens of the tank, who are led by scarred Moorish idol Gill.

Comparatively only a few species are, for part of their lives, denizens of fresh water; these, as larvae, are parasitic on the eggs or larvae of other aquatic insects, the little hymenopteron, Polynema natans, one of the " fairy-flies " - swims through the water by strokes of her delicate wings in search of a dragon-fly's egg in which to lay her own egg, while the rare Agriotypus dives after the case of a caddis-worm.

Greeff enumerates, as denizens of Japanese seas, 26 kinds of seaurchins (gaze or uni) and 12 of starfish (hitode or tako-no-makura).