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Definition of Citizen
Cit´i`zen | n. | 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. | | 2. | An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. | | 3. | A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. | | 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. | | 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. |
Related Words
burgess, burgher, citizen by adoption, civilian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, deditician, franklin, free citizen, freedman, freedwoman, freeman, freewoman, householder, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, metic, naturalized citizen, nonbelligerent, noncombatant, nonnative citizen, nonresistant, nonresister, oppidan, ratepayer, resident, taxpayer, towner, townsman, townswoman, villager, voter
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