Denizen

Denizen may refer to:

  • An inhabitant of a place, or one who dwells in a place, whether local, regional or national.
  • A person with rights between those of a citizen and a resident alien, e.g.:
    • Free Negro, a non-slave black person in the United States, prior to the abolition of slavery
    • Denization, an obsolete Common Law process by which a foreigner gained some rights of a British subject
  • Denizen Hotels, a hotel chain owned by the Hilton Hotels Corporation
  • Denizen (video game), a computer game published by Players Software in 1988
  • Denizen (film), a 2010 feature film directed, written and produced by J.A. Steel

Famous quotes containing the word denizen:

    A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)