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denizen

/den-uh-zuhn/US // ˈdɛn ə zən //UK // (ˈdɛnɪzən) //

居住者,居住在这里的人,居住在那里的人,居住在此的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an inhabitant; resident.
    • : a person who regularly frequents a place; habitué: the denizens of a local bar.
    • : anything adapted to a new place, condition, etc., as an animal or plant not indigenous to a place but successfully naturalized.
    • : British Law. an alien admitted to residence and to certain rights of citizenship in a country: this legal designation has been obsolete since the first half of the 20th century.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make a denizen of.

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Examples

  • He’s a denizen of Free City, a hugely popular open-world video game in which the players can do whatever they want—generally, they just adopt customized tough-guy skins, drive fast in their cartoony cars and rob virtual banks.

  • Humans are destroying forests because they lack empathy with their denizens, he says.

  • Microwaves are the shortest denizens of the radio wave family.

  • In Boston, for instance, fighting regularly broke out as denizens from the north and south ends of town met with their floats to do battle.

  • There were still many moments when I felt dumbfounded by the intensity of the denizens of this foreign world.

  • How lovely, than, that one Internet denizen took the time to help these forgotten statesmen find sexual satiation…with each other!

  • When Kemal, a wealthy denizen of Istanbul, meets Fusun, a beautiful shop girl and distant cousin, the two begin a torrid affair.

  • It's a small, exclusive French brand that was once only the denizen of select fashionistas.

  • It embellishes the denizen of the city, and hides the nakedness of barbarism.

  • It was strange indeed to meet a living denizen of a world that seemed to her impossible except in books.

  • The elephant is the denizen of the forests where, in a succeeding chapter, we shall encounter both him and the rhinoceros.

  • The solitary denizen of the plains—the little minivet (Pericrocotus peregrinus)—is the least resplendent of them all.

  • Sometimes this throat uttered Yes, sometimes it uttered No; sometimes it made inquiries about a time worn denizen of the place.