citizen

Meaning

1. A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties.
2. A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
3. An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
4. A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
5. A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
6. (obsolete) An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
7. A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
8. An object.

Synonyms

national

inhabitant

subject

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

native

civilian

townsman

resident

burgess

citizenship

populace

denizen

villager

burgher

inhabitants

towner

crowd

residents

public

freemen

dweller

mass

population

townee

city people

town-bred

habitancy

bourgeois

patrial

citizenry

civics

class

country

family

👪

folk

habitant

human

human being

humanity

humankind

indigenous

man

👨

mankind

match

middle class

nation

subordinate

townspeople

city-bred

city slicker

town-dweller

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɪtɪzən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: citeseyn

Cognate with French: cité

In summary

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.

Sentences

Later , Visin became an honorary citizen of Trieste .