citizen 
citi·zen (sit′ə zən, -sən)
noun
- Historical a native or inhabitant, esp. a freeman or burgess, of a town or city
- a native, inhabitant, or denizen of any place citizens of the deep
- a member of a state or nation, esp. one with a republican form of government, who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights
- a civilian, as distinguished from a person in military service, a policeman, etc.
Etymology: ME & Anglo-Fr citizein, altered (? infl. by denizen) < OFr citeain < cité: see city; citizensense infl. by use of Fr citoyen during the Fr Revolution
citizen
n.
citizen refers to a member of a state or nation, esp. one with a republican government, who owes it allegiance and is entitled to full civil rights either by birth or naturalization; subject is the term used when the government is headed by a monarch or other sovereign; national is applied to a person residing away from the country of which he or she is, or once was, a citizen or subject; native refers to one who was born in the country under question, and is applied specifically to an original or indigenous inhabitant of the region
n
- A person who, due to place of birth, naturalization, or other reasons (for example, citizenship of parents) is a member of a political community or of a civil state, such as a country or state, and is entitled to all the civil rights and protections thereof and owes allegiance to its government. See also naturalization and resident.
- For purpose of federal diversity of citizenship lawsuits, a corporation that is incorporated or has its principal place of business in a state, or an alien granted permanent residence in the United States and residing in a state, is a citizen of that state.
Possessives
- bureau: We maintain good links with local health services and other agencies such as CAB ( citizens ' advice bureau ) and housing.
Converse of object
- empower: Mr Miliband said the government was also seeking to empower citizens through third sector organizations in order to improve services at local level.
- naturalize: Many naturalized citizens chose to change their names for fear of persecution.
- naturalize: As a naturalized American citizen he later pursued a claim for compensation, but the result is not known.
- educate: Being an educated citizen is to be free to make informed decisions.
- become: His mother was born in Brooklyn in 1854, he became an honorary citizen of the United States.
Adjective modifier
- senior: The pool was always bustling from babies to senior citizens.
- law-abiding: If you're a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide you've nothing to fear, eh?
- second-class: We reject the philosophy that tenants are second-class citizens.
- fellow: They are designed to liberate the talents of millions of our fellow citizens who are not properly supported by the present rules.
- ordinary: It is the same to campaign for the disarming of ordinary British citizens.
- British: British citizens may soon have to produce the ID card to receive health care.
Modifies a noun
- bureau: Ricochets from lawyer to doctor to social services to citizens advice bureau.
- participation: In Brazil at least 70 cities have established such a system allowing citizen participation in decision-making over resource allocation.
- advocacy: Here are the stories of two of our twelve citizen advocacy partnerships.
- florida: But one area their citizen florida home insurance owner sixties and.
- engagement: Effective citizen engagement in lifelong learning and purposeful public problem solving, that improves lives, is a key issue.
- journalist: Thus, he said, the ideal situation would be a joining of forces between the mainstream press and citizen journalists.
Noun used with modifier
- non-eu: In 2002, the no fee policy was abolished for non-EU citizens.
- eu: EU citizens are going wild over it, making hundreds of comments.
Now, on Friday noon, I am to become a private citizen. I am proud to do so. I look forward to it.
How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'
I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
Why should not the name of an Australian be equal to that of a Britonto that of a citizen of the proudest country under the sun? Make yourselves a united people, appear before the world as one, and the dream of going 'home' will die away.
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland,Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
Civis Romanus sum. I am a Roman citizen.
The liberty that the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by the governmental machinery that he lives under, whether representative or otherwise, but by the paucity of restraints that it imposes upon him.
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.
Sophia Loren is not a citizen.
A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is
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