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CITIZEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("citizen" is a kind of...):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citizen"):
active citizen (a citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch))
civilian (a nonmilitary citizen)
freeman; freewoman (a person who is not a serf or a slave)
private citizen (a citizen who does not hold any official or public position)
repatriate (a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored)
thane (a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land))
elector; voter (a citizen who has a legal right to vote)
Holonyms ("citizen" is a member of...):
citizenry; people (the body of citizens of a state or country)
Antonym:
noncitizen (a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country)
Derivation:
citizenship (conduct as a citizen)
citizenship (the status of a citizen with rights and duties)
Context examples:
A system of at least five exoplanets has been discovered by citizen scientists through a project called Exoplanet Explorers, part of the online platform Zooniverse, using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.
(Multi-planet System Found Through Crowdsourcing, NASA)
What could have happened, then, to bring one of the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you’re an American citizen. ‘It’s British law and order over here,’ says he.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Public-spirited citizens took down their rifles and went out after him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“I can hardly think that you would find many decent citizens to agree with you,” I answered.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The authors said the impact would be most significant for the poorest citizens of some of the least-developed countries, who eat the most rice and have the least diverse diets.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
Citizen scientists scanning images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an orbiting infra-red observatory, recently stumbled upon a new class of curiosities that had gone largely unrecognized before: yellow balls.
(Citizen Scientists Discover Yellow "Space Balls", NASA)
If it be not inconvenient to you, pray let us go in, that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Thunders of applause from the English soldiers, as well as from the citizens and peasants, showed how far the love of brave and knightly deeds could rise above the rivalries of race.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scientists made the migration shift discovery thanks to information aggregated from two sources: remote-sensing data from weather surveillance radar and ground-based data collected in citizen science databases.
(Seasonality of bird migration responds to environmental cues, NSF)
