Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CITIZEN
citizen
(noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
citizen (plural citizens)
A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms: burgess, burgher, freeman
Hyponyms: citess, citizeness (female)
A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms: countryman, national
Antonyms: alien, illegal alien, foreigner, illegal (colloquial)
Hyponyms: first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen, native, naturalized citizen, senior citizen
An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place. [from 14th c.]
Synonyms: denizen, local, inhabitant, native, occupant, resident
Antonyms: alien, outsider, stranger
(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. [from 15th c.]
A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other. [17th–19th c.]
(now, historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later) a term of address among socialists and communists. [from 18th c.]
Synonym: comrade (term of address among communists)
(computing) An object.
Hyponyms: first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen
Synonyms
• burgess
• burgher
• denizen
• townsman, townswoman
Antonyms
• (resident of a city): countryfolk, country gentleman, countryman, peasant, villager
Hyponyms
• (person who is legally recognized as a member or resident): first-class citizen, second-class citizen, third-class citizen
Anagrams
• zincite
Noun
Citizen (plural Citizens)
A pupil of City of London School
Anagrams
• zincite
Source: Wiktionary
Cit"i*zen, n. Etym: [OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité city. See City, and cf. Cit.]
1. 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. That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs. G. Eliot.
2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. Shak.
3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
Note: This protection is . . . national protection, recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his security and rights abroad as well as at home. Abbot
4. 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.
Cit"i*zen, a.
1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.] I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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