Denizen vs. Citizen — What's the Difference?

A person, animal, or plant that lives or is found in a particular place

A legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized

An inhabitant; a resident

A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.

One that frequents a particular place

A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.

Chiefly British A foreigner who is granted rights of residence and sometimes of citizenship.

A civilian.

To make a denizen of; grant rights of residence to.

A native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place

An inhabitant of a place; one who dwells in.

A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.

One who frequents a place.

A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.

A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.

An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.

(biology) An animal or plant from a particular range or habitat.

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or later of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.

A foreign word that has become naturalised in another language.

A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.

To grant rights of citizenship to; to naturalize.

(obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.

(transitive) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; dated a term of address among socialists and communists.

A dweller; an inhabitant.

(computing) An object.

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.

One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.

One admitted to residence in a foreign country.

An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.

To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.

A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.

To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.

A person who inhabits a particular place

Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

A plant or animal naturalized in a region;

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community