Citizen

Quick meaning: Citizen is a noun meaning A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
2. An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
3. (Christianity) A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
4. A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
5. (computing, figurative) A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
6. (now historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
7. (obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.

Example Sentences

I am a Roman citizen.

Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.

A jellyfish... carries poison cells that can sting other citizens of the sea.

He is also a citizen of Antigua, because he purchased a home – where he now resides with his family.

Word Forms

• citizens

Synonyms for citizen

Depending on context, synonyms include burgess, burgher, denizen, townsman, townswoman, cityite.

Antonyms for citizen

Common opposites include countryfolk, countryman, peasant, villager, alien, foreigner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include civic, compatriot, citizenship, bourgeois, citizenry, civics.

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