citizen.
A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
Meaning & usage
A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
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.
An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.
A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English citeseyn (“inhabitant of a city or town”), citezein, citisein, from Anglo-Norman citesain (“city-dweller, town-dweller”), citesein, citezein, alteration of citeien from cite (“city”) + -ien (“-ain”) (probable variant of cithein perhaps influenced by dainzain (“denizen”), deinzein), from Old French cite (“city”) + -ien (whence French citoyen), from earlier citet, from Latin civitatem, citatem, from civis. See also city. Displaced native Old English burhsittend and Old English ceasterware.
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