cit·i·zen /ˈsɪtəzən ||sən/
公民;市民;平民
Cit·i·zen 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. --G. Eliot.
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.
Cit·i·zen, a.
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. --Shak.
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citizen
n : a native or naturalized member of a state or other political
community [ant: foreigner]