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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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