Word Finder - citizen

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

synonyms

• burgess
• burgher
• freeman

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A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.

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• countryman
• national

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An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.

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Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.

synonyms

• denizen
• inhabitant
• local
• native
• occupant
• resident

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A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.

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A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.

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An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.

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(usually capitalized) 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.

synonyms

• comrade

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An object.

You're a private citizen in a few days.

I'm not a citizen of the county, so I can't vote for you.

John received an award for being a good citizen after he cleaned up the trash in the park.

These laws provide recourse in the event that one citizen infringes on the rights of another.

I am only one of a number of concerned citizen contributors.

I'm just a curious citizen.

By this change power is not granted to every citizen, but it is put within the reach of every citizen.

A senator must be twenty-five years of age, and must have been a citizen of the state for five years and a resident of the district for one year preceding his election.

He was naturalized as a French citizen in 1834, and in the same year became professor of constitutional law in the faculty of law at Paris.

What about extradition, if a citizen of one country visits another and breaks the local law?

No one but a Venetian citizen was permitted to share in the profits of that trade.

Instead, I pulled to the side of the country road like any good citizen.

Every male Hungarian citizen, able to read and write, was to receive the vote at the beginning of his twenty-fifth year, subject to a residential qualification of twelve months.

In addition he edited American History told by Contemporaries (4 vols., 1898-1901), and Source Readers in American History (4 vols., 1901-1903), and two co-operative histories of the United States, the Epochs of American History series (3 small text-books), and, on a much larger scale, the American Nation series (27 vols., 1903-1907); he also edited the American Citizen series.

The vast mass of documents and finished literary work thus given to the world has thrown a flood of light upon Guicciardini, whether we consider him as author or as citizen.

On this occasion a powerful citizen named Euphron effected a democratic revolution and established himself tyrant by popular support.

A declared intention to become a United States citizen ceased in 1902 to be sufficient qualification for voters, full citizenship (with residence qualifications) being made requisite.

For older thinkers like Plato and Aristotle the perfect life was that of the citizen and householder; but the Cynics were individualists, citizens of the world without loyalty or respect for the ancient city state, the decay of which was coincident with their rise.

He became a skilled linguist, a widely read scholar - though much of his learning was more curious than useful - a powerful preacher, a valued citizen, and a voluminous writer, and did a vast deal for the intellectual and spiritual quickening of New England.

Aelian makes him the leader of the Milesian colony to Amphipolis, and hence some have inferred that he was a prominent citizen.

In April 1875 he was invested as a cardinal, with the title of Sancta Maria supra Minervam, being the first American citizen to receive this dignity.

The orator laid especial stress on the necessity of the sacrifice of all party animosities to the common weal, and volunteered, as "the first citizen of a free people," to be the mediator between the contending factions.

And yet it was to this property-holding, debt-paying, law-abiding, well-dressed, courteous-mannered citizen of Concord that the ardent and enthusiastic turned as the prophet of the new idealism.

Every citizen of the United States, male or female, twenty-one years old or over, who has lived one year within the state, four months within the county and sixty days within the precinct has the right of suffrage, except that idiots, insane, and those convicted of treason or crime against the elective franchise are disfranchised; but in elections levying a special tax, creating indebtedness or increasing the rate of state taxation, only those who have paid a property tax during the preceding year may vote.

No person is eligible to either house who is not a citizen of the United States, twenty-five years of age, a resident of the state for three years and of the district from which he is chosen for one year.

Augustus had been designated (not indeed officially, but none the less regularly) as princeps - the first citizen or foremost man of the state.

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Late in the same century towns began to form, without, however, disturbing the federation, which existed as late as the 2nd century B.C., governed by a representative council (fovX&), and a common assembly at which any citizen might be present.

The governor must be at least thirty years of age, a resident of the state for five years next preceding his election; and, if of foreign birth, a citizen of the United States for ten years.

In it Peisistratus is made to say of himself that he "collected Homer, who was formerly sung in fragments, for the golden poet was a citizen of ours, since we Athenians founded Smyrna."

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