Citizen

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. 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.
	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. I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. - Shak.

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