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Citizen   /sˈɪtəzən/  /sˈɪtɪzən/   Listen
noun
Citizen  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."
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. 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.
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.



adjective
Citizen  adj.  
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."






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"Citizen" Quotes from Famous Books



... time, after various false alarms on our part, the band confidently strikes up "God Save the King!" and there is a flashing and prancing in the distance that creates a great stir. The citizen guard, a stately body of burghers, rides out with the king on this day of all the year, and comes caracoling by in fine style, he in the midst bowing and smiling. And now, after the Herrschaften—hohe and hoechste—come the animals. First, horses haughtily stepping, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - February, 1876, Vol. XVII, No. 98. • Various

... quality of pressman had never learned to read or write. Just then, however, a Representative of the People being in a mighty hurry to publish the Decrees of the Convention, bestowed a master printer's license on Sechard, and requisitioned the establishment. Citizen Sechard accepted the dangerous patent, bought the business of his master's widow with his wife's savings, and took over the plant at half its value. But he was not even at the beginning. He was bound to print the Decrees of the Republic without mistakes ...
— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... anything except the commonplace and the expected might happen to a man on the waterfront. The cheerful industry of shanghaing was reduced to a science. A citizen taking a drink in one of the saloons which hung out over the water might be dropped through the floor into a boat, or he might drink with a stranger and wake in the forecastle of a whaler bound for the Arctic. Such an incident is the basis of Frank Norris's ...
— The City That Was - A Requiem of Old San Francisco • Will Irwin

... Canterbury as an Archbishop of Canterbury. It is when he does the rational British statesman that they very justifiably get annoyed. Most Anglicans with an eye for pluck and simplicity could admire Dr. Clifford as a Baptist minister. It is when he says that he is simply a citizen that nobody can ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... THIRD CITIZEN. Ay, the Parliament can make every true-born man of us a bastard. Old Nokes, can't it make thee a bastard? thou shouldst know, for thou art ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson


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