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单词 denizen
释义
denizen
noun[C]
literary
uk
/ˈden.ɪ.zən/us
/ˈden.ə.zən/
ananimal,plant, orpersonthatlivesin or is often in aparticularplace:
（特定地区的）居民，常住者，动物，植物
Deer andsquirrelsare among the denizensoftheforest.鹿和松鼠是森林地带的常见动物。
Synonyms
city, town, cave, etc.dweller
inhabitant
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
People who live or settle somewhere
  • asylum seeker
  • boarder
  • brain drain
  • city slicker
  • co-resident
  • Georgian
  • guest worker
  • habitant
  • illegal alien
  • illegal immigrant
  • lodger
  • Orcadian
  • outflow
  • overspill
  • repeople
  • returnee
  • squatter
  • villager
  • welcome wagon
  • year-rounder
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(Definition ofdenizenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdenizen

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The department employed buggy drivers and route riders to deliver the mail directly to the homes of rural denizens.
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Thedenizencould be seen as being granted exactly that package, minus a couple of important entitlements.
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An alien becomes adenizenby being ' infranchised ', which literally means being made free or given freedoms.
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One useful connotation of this technical sense of 'denizen' was that it implied freedom.
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We are allowed to give ear to the building's denizens, the echoes of whose voices sculpt our movement through space.
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In and of itself, however, the material existence and output of small-scale enter prises and the lives of their denizens is insufficient to either explain or maintain this role.
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In particular, as bearers and denizens of a social memory, the missionary artifacts suggest ways of thinking about what happens, through time, to the elements of an individual memory.
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Wanamaker pressed diligently for the expansion of rural deliver y, knowing that rural denizens would support other department initiatives once they had a taste of its best services.
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Quite a number of questions were asked by the denizens of another place about metrication, but with very little success.
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The most important point is surely the inhabiting of the highlands and uplands by the human denizens thereof and not some obscure corncrake.
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Or does it mean the denizens of some building who issue instructions, and more frequently embargos, from time to time?
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Let us remember that nature provides no beds for its denizens to die in.
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I believe that it is along these lines that the real salvation of the denizens of our prisons will be found.
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The denizens of the fish and chip shop have become the aristocrats of the high seas.
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He spoke about the "denizens of the rat-runs" of the marketing system.
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