Resident vs. Denizen — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Resident and Denizen
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Resident
A diplomatic official residing in a foreign seat of government.
Denizen
A person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place
Denizens of field and forest
Resident
A colonial official acting as adviser to the ruler of a protected state, often having quasi-gubernatorial powers.
Denizen
An inhabitant; a resident
Denizens of Buenos Aires.
Turtles and other swamp denizens.
Resident
A member of an intelligence-gathering or nonuniformed law enforcement agency who resides and oversees operations in a certain locale
The FBI resident in St. Louis.
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Denizen
One that frequents a particular place
A bar and its denizens.
Denizens of the deep sea.
Resident
One who lives in a dormitory.
Denizen
Chiefly British A foreigner who is granted rights of residence and sometimes of citizenship.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized clinical training in a hospital, usually after completing an internship.
Denizen
To make a denizen of; grant rights of residence to.
Resident
A nonmigratory bird or other animal.
Denizen
An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.
The giant squid is one of many denizens of the deep.
Resident
Dwelling in a particular place; residing
Resident aliens.
Denizen
One who frequents a place.
The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
Resident
Living somewhere in connection with duty or work.
Denizen
A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
Though born in Iceland, he became a denizen of Britain after leaving Oxford.
Resident
Filling a particular role in a group or organization
The museum's official resident poet.
The office's resident gossipmonger.
Denizen
(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
Resident
Inherently present
Resident anxieties.
Denizen
A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language.
Resident
Nonmigratory
Resident fauna.
Denizen
To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
Resident
A person, animal or plant living at a certain location or in a certain area.
Denizen
(transitive) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
Resident
A bird which does not migrate during the course of the year.
Denizen
A dweller; an inhabitant.
Denizens of their own free, independent state.
Resident
A physician receiving specialized medical training.
She's a resident in neurosurgery at Mass General.
Denizen
One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court, usually of inferior rank to an ambassador.
Denizen
One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
Ye gods,Natives, or denizens, of blest abodes.
Resident
(legal) A legal permanent resident, someone who maintains residency.
Denizen
To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
As soon as denizened, they domineer.
Resident
(espionage) rezident
Denizen
To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.
There [islets] were at once denizened by various weeds.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate.
Resident in the city or in the country
Denizen
A person who inhabits a particular place
Resident
Based in a particular place; on hand; local.
He is our resident computer expert.
Denizen
A plant or animal naturalized in a region;
Denizens of field and forest
Denizens of the deep
Resident
(obsolete) Fixed; stable; certain.
Resident
Currently loaded into RAM; contrasted with virtual memory.
Resident
Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; - opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
Resident
Fixed; stable; certain.
One there still resident as day and night.
Resident
One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
Resident
A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; - a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
Resident
Someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
Resident
A physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital;
The resident was receiving special clinical training at the hospital
Resident
Living in a particular place;
Resident aliens
Resident
Used of animals that do not migrate
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