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Foreigner vs. Citizen — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Foreigner and Citizen

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Foreigner

One who is from a foreign country or place.
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Citizen

A legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized
A British citizen
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Foreigner

One who is from outside a particular group or community; an outsider.
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Citizen

A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
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Foreigner

A person from a foreign country.
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Citizen

A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
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Foreigner

A private job run by an employee at a trade factory rather than going through the business.
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Citizen

A civilian.
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Foreigner

A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger.
Joy is such a foreigner,So mere a stranger to my thoughts.
Nor could the majesty of the English crown appear in a greater luster, either to foreigners or subjects.
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Citizen

A native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place
Citizens of rural Utah.
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Foreigner

A person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
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Citizen

A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.
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Foreigner

Someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
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Citizen

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.
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Citizen

An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.
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Citizen

(Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or later of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
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Citizen

A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
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Citizen

(obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
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Citizen

A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; dated a term of address among socialists and communists.
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Citizen

(computing) An object.
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Citizen

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.
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Citizen

An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
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Citizen

A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
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Citizen

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.
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Citizen

Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
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Citizen

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.
I am not well,But not so citizen a wanton asTo seem to die ere sick.
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Citizen

A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
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