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A denizen of a place is a person, animal, or plant that lives there or is typically found there. Foxes can be denizens of a forest; a regular late-night customer can be a denizen of a café. The word is a little and old-fashioned in a pleasant way — nature writing and novels like it. In ordinary talk you would just say “the people who live there” or “the animals here.” Though actually, English also had an older legal use: a who was given some of the rights of a local person. You almost never need that meaning now, but it explains the old flavour: not exactly “citizen,” more “someone who belongs inside this place.” A fish can be a denizen; a fish cannot be a citizen.
（某地的）住民、棲息者
組成From Middle English denisein, from Old French denzein, from deinz (“within”) + -ein. That deinz comes from Late Latin dē intus (“from within”), which is also where French dans (“in”) comes from. The old idea is “someone from inside.”
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
denizennoun/ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/
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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.
- […] adversity bends the heart as fire bends the stubborn steel, and those who are no longer their own governors, and the denizens of their own free independent state, must crouch before strangers.
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One who frequents a place.
- The denizens of that pub are of the roughest sort.
- He was well known to the sallow denizens of the lane; for such of them as were on the look-out to buy or sell, nodded, familiarly, as he passed along.
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historicalA 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 […]
- A denizen is a kind of middle state, between an alien and a natural-born subject, and partakes of both.
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biologynatural-sciencesAn animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.
- The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA foreign word that has become naturalised in another language in terms of use, but not in terms of form.
denizenverb/ˈdɛn.ɪ.zən/
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historicalTo grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.
- He was denizened to Ireland after fleeing his home country.
- [The Horse-Chessnut] was first brought from Constantinople to Vienna, thence into Italy, and so France; but to Ʋs from the Levant more immediately, and flourishes so well, and grows so goodly a Tree in compe[te]nt time, that by this alone, we might have ample encouragement to Denizen other strangers amongst us.
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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 […] .
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。