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Citizen

//ˈsɪtɪzən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.

    "[T]hat 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 were likely to get impatient."

  2. 2
    A personal Title denoting citizenship, implicitly of the nation in which it is spoken
  3. 3
    a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community wordnet
  4. 4
    A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.

    "I am a Roman citizen."

  5. 5
    A pupil of City of London School
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  1. 6
    An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.

    "Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world."

  2. 7
    A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
  3. 8
    A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
  4. 9
    An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other. obsolete

    "[W]ould Mr. Delvile, who hardly ever spoke but to the high-born, without seeming to think his dignity somewhat injured, deign to receive for a daughter in law the child of a citizen and tradesman?"

  5. 10
    A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists. capitalized, historical, usually

    "Citizen, I desire nothing more than to get to Paris, though I could dispense with the escort."

  6. 11
    A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application. figuratively

    "The HIG delivers Apple's design commandments, the company's definition of what it means to be a good iPhone citizen."

Etymology

From Middle English citeseyn, citezein, borrowed from Anglo-Norman citesain (“burgher; city-dweller”), citezein, etc., probably a variant of cithein under influence of deinzein (“denizen”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French citeain, etc. and citaien, citeien, etc. ("burgher"; modern French citoyen), from cité ("settlement; cathedral city, city"; modern French cité) + -ain or -ien (“-an, -ian”). See city and hewe.

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