citizen

About 14.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. noun A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.

   I am a Roman citizen.

3. noun An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.

   Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.

4. noun A resident of the heavenly city or of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
5. noun A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
6. noun An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
7. noun A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; a term of address among socialists and communists.
8. noun A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.

Similar words

civic compatriot citizenship bourgeois citizenry civics people population national community

Often followed by

of and to in is who participation or was

Word family

citizenly citizens