citizen
Meanings
Plural: citizens
Noun
- a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
- 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.
- An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English citeseyn, citezein, borrowed from Anglo-Norman citesain (“burgher; city-dweller”), citezein, etc., probably a variant of cithein under influence of deinzein (“denizen”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French citeain, etc. and citaien, citeien, etc. ("burgher"; modern French citoyen), from cité ("settlement; cathedral city, city"; modern French cité) + -ain or -ien (“-an, -ian”). See city and hewe.
Synonyms
burgess, burgher, cityite, comrade, countryman, denizen, freeman, inhabitant, local, national, native, occupant, resident, townsman, townswoman
Antonyms
alien, country gentleman, countryfolk, countryman, foreigner, illegal, illegal alien, noncitizen, outsider, peasant, stranger, villager
Scrabble Score: 18
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