denizen
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/
美 /ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
— The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
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One who frequents a place.
— 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.
— 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, London, The xiiii yere, Then by commaundement wer all Fre[n]chemen and Scottes imprisoned and the goodes seazed, and all suche as were denizens were commaunded to shewe their letters patentes […]
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An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
— The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
- A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
动词 v.
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To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
— 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.
— 1849, Joseph Dalton Hooker, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India” in William Jackson Hooker (editor), Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, Volume 1, p. 85, There were a few islets in the sand […] . These were at once denizened by the Calotropis, Argemone, Tamarix, Gnaphalium luteoalbum and two other species […] .
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans.
词源 2
From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans.
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