denizen

Meanings

1. An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in a certain place.
2. One who frequents a place.
3. A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
4. An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
5. A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.

1. To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
2. To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Etymology

From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein, from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), whence French dans.