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/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

... more than other people's. I never trust mine, I can assure you. I own I had a cigar in my mouth, but it was because I liked the flavor of tobacco, but not to smoke. I take it don't convene with the dignity of a free and enlightened citizen of our almighty nation, to break the law, seein' that he makes the law himself, and is his own sovereign, and his own subject, too. No, I warn't smokin', and if you don't believe me, try this cigar yourself, and see if ...

— The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; • Various

... Five Towns when he came new to them from London, and he had continued to hate them. They desolated him. But to-night he thought of them sympathetically. It was as if he was divining in them for the first time a recondite charm. He remembered what an old citizen named Dain had said one evening at the Conservative Club: "People may say what they choose about Bursley. I've just returned from London and I tell thee I was glad to get back. I like Bursley." A grotesque saying, he had thought, then. Yet now ...

— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... to preserve tranquillity in the mutual relations of forty powerful states, while keeping the people everywhere as far as possible in direct contact with the government; such is the political problem which the American Union exists for the purpose of solving; and of this great truth every American citizen is supposed to have ...

— American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History • John Fiske

... official connection with politics was his serving as a delegate from the Seventeenth Ohio District in the Philadelphia Convention that nominated General Taylor. He is in no degree a politician, but always takes an active interest as a private citizen and voter, in the discussion of political questions. His tastes are elegant and refined, and since his virtual retirement from the pressing duties of business, he has found enjoyment in the cultivation of those tastes. His manners are affable ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... that lie between, it is easier to see with a judicial eye. If there is to be found anywhere in the world a gentler, a more hospitable, a more sober, a more chaste, truthful, and loyal creature than the citizen Turk, I confess that I should like to meet him. If there is anywhere to be found a man more devoted to duty, braver, simpler, gentler than the common soldier of the Turkish army, I would walk a long ...

— The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography • David Christie Murray

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