Citizen Illustrations
Inhabitantnoun
Someone or thing who lives in a place.
Citizennoun
(obsolete) A resident of a city or town, particularly:
Inhabitantadjective
Resident.
Citizennoun
(historical) A freeman or burgher: a legally-recognized member of an incorporated city.
Inhabitantnoun
One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state.
‘In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people.’;
Citizennoun
(obsolete) A member of the early modern urban middle class, distinguished from nobles and landed gentry on one side and from peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
Inhabitantnoun
One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
Citizennoun
(Christianity) A resident or future resident of the heavenly city or later of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
Inhabitantnoun
a person who inhabits a particular place
Citizennoun
A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role, particularly:
‘I am a Roman citizen.’;
Citizennoun
(dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy.
Citizennoun
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.
Citizennoun
An inhabitant: a member of any place.
‘Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.’;
Citizennoun
A private citizen: a civilian, as opposed to a police officer, professional soldier, or other (usually state) group.
Citizennoun
(computing) An object.
Citizennoun
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.’;
Citizennoun
An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
Citizennoun
A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
Citizennoun
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.
Citizenadjective
Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
Citizenadjective
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.’;
Citizennoun
a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
Citizennoun
a legally recognized subject or national of a state or commonwealth, either native or naturalized
‘a British citizen’;
Citizennoun
an inhabitant of a particular town or city
‘the good citizens of Edinburgh’;
