Citizen

Citizen
Citizen Cit"i*zen, n. [OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cit['e] 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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. [1913 Webster]

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 [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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