What's the difference between denizen and dweller?

Denizen


Definition:

  • (n.) A dweller; an inhabitant.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One admitted to residence in a foreign country.
  • (v. t.) To constitute (one) a denizen; to admit to residence, with certain rights and privileges.
  • (v. t.) To provide with denizens; to populate with adopted or naturalized occupants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
  • (2) People have lived along the Rogue river for at least 8,500 years but its most famous denizen is probably the author Zane Grey , who wrote more than 90 books about the western frontier.
  • (3) Is "The Chalice" actually the Copenhagen Police Headquarters, affectionately referred to by its denizens as "The Chalice" (could this be "The Chalice"?)
  • (4) The world's universities overflow with economic research proving beyond doubt that contemporary capitalist economies do not function as if their denizens were prehistoric humans trading nuts and berries at the edge of the forest – the great delusion of free market economics.
  • (5) Come New Year's Day, denizens of the Johannesburg hotel could scarcely have dreamed of the horror unfolding upstairs in one of its luxurious rooms.
  • (6) More and more, the new buildings of the super-rich turn their denizens inward, justifying their extortionate prices by offering amenities such as gyms, screening rooms, wine bars and even libraries – and thereby further reducing the street life that any great city depends upon.
  • (7) Cameron has brought him in to review social mobility, and he owes no fealty to Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, denizens of the enemy camp of yesteryear.
  • (8) Whether they are Isis members or not, web denizens are prone to giving away a lot on social networks, but businesses are often guilty of failing to clean up after themselves too.
  • (9) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
  • (10) Both Kung Fu Pandas borrow heavily from Chinese culture, depicting a brotherhood of anthropomorphic characters – the Furious Five – who use martial arts to protect the denizens of the Valley of Peace.
  • (11) We should expect that he and other denizens of talk radio will try to maintain their relevance in the Trump era by continuing to campaign against the last president.
  • (12) What is so special about this tiny, black-and-white denizen of Asian freshwater streams.
  • (13) You can't turn off the internet, nor make its denizens respectable (ask Louise Mensch).
  • (14) The Observer's Mark Kermode is among those who have admitted to a sense of distress that Team Edward, Team Jacob and the army of baseball-playing, Gap model denizens of the undead which seem to accompany them will soon no longer be with us.
  • (15) Most denizens in these realms would be hard-pressed to identify any instances in which they embraced causes or people deeply unpopular within those circles.
  • (16) True, it's not much – and some Slashdot denizens would pride themselves on being able to prevent ads being shown by entirely programmatic, rather than financial means.
  • (17) The sets play up to almost every female stereotype, with lots of pink, handbags aplenty and oodles of lipstick for its denizens.
  • (18) Yet another denizen of the internet calculated that based on Meek and Jeter’s recent performances, “Derek Jeter had a 0.9% chance of doing that naturally last night”.
  • (19) 764 people were surveyed, including 473 aborigines of the north, 207 denizens, and 84 migrants.
  • (20) Momentum , the grassroots movement of Corbyn supporters, will like it no more than the denizens of Rupert Murdoch’s parties, but there come moments in political lives when great politicians have to stand up and be counted.

Dweller


Definition:

  • (n.) An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
  • (2) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
  • (3) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
  • (4) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
  • (5) On the contrary, not all country dwellers are Tories; and fat cats, often Tory, will be rubbing their hands at the thought of asset-stripping another national resource.
  • (6) • the following correction was published on 30 October 2011: People and numbers: "Global growth fears put to the test" (News) said Africa "had fewer than 500,000 urban dwellers in 1950", but the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa puts the figure at 14.9% of total population – 33 million.
  • (7) But indigenous and environmental groups claim Belo Monte will displace tens of thousands of river-dwellers and bring violence and social chaos to the Amazon state of Para.
  • (8) Urban dwellers had a higher prevalence of abnormal smears (15%) compared with town camp and rural women (2%).
  • (9) As the Reuters news agency reports: With a 100 percent record so far, the British-born aquarium dweller at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany has become a celebrity having correctly predicted a series of German wins and even Germany's surprise group stage loss to Serbia.
  • (10) What the rest of the world considers acceptable climate change is, quite simply, a disaster for atoll dwellers.
  • (11) The LA river will never compete with the Danube or Seine or Thames as an attraction for stressed city-dwellers.
  • (12) Presently, 33% of urban city dwellers live in slums or shantytowns.
  • (13) But there are concerns in the region about the impact of the new arrivals in urban areas and emerging tensions between the newcomers and existing town-dwellers.
  • (14) Random sample of 2,792 community dwellers aged 65 and over (participation rate: 69%).
  • (15) Corals are crucial to the livelihoods of millions of coastal dwellers around the world.
  • (16) However, important and unexplained differences in glucose tolerance remained between rural and periurban coastal dwellers after taking these factors into account.
  • (17) Filaria surveys conducted in some select slum clusters namely Hari Nagar, Yamuna pusht near Vijaya Ghat along the Ring Road and Timarpur in Delhi during 1989, 1991 and 1992 respectively, covering a population of approximately 5000 slum dwellers revealed the presence of bancroftian microfilaria (mf) carriers and disease cases.
  • (18) The first Latin American pontiff, who once worked with slum dwellers in his home city of Buenos Aires , Argentina, expressed solidarity with the residents of the Varginha favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, where he received a rapturous welcome.
  • (19) Zymodemes considered to be non-pathogenic (I and XVI) were identified in 34 of 37 isolates from slum dwellers and were not associated with blood in the stools.
  • (20) In 2011, they published a study in the journal Nature showing that, compared to people who live in the countryside, city-dwellers are hyperactive in a region of the brain called the amygdala, which is linked to depression and anxiety.