citizen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English citeseyn (“inhabitant of a city or town”), citezein, citisein, from Anglo-Norman citesain (“city-dweller, town-dweller”), citesein, citezein, alteration of citeien from cite (“city”) + -ien (“-ain”) (probable variant of cithein perhaps influenced by dainzain (“denizen”), deinzein), from Old French cite (“city”) + -ien (whence French citoyen), from earlier citet, from Latin civitatem, citatem, from civis. See also city. Displaced native Old English burhsittend and Old English ceasterware.
Base: cite
Affixes: -ien
Inflected forms:
form: citizens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cytesin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hat large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs were likely to get impatient.
gloss: A legally recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role.
pos: noun
examples: I am a Roman citizen.
Assistant: You'll meet with the managing director and Dr Sinita Brahmachari, the engineer who designed the chair.
Peter Mackenzie: Indian, is he?
Assistant: She is a British citizen, Minister. Born in Coventry.
Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
He is also a citizen of Antigua, because he purchased a home – where he now resides with his family.
gloss: An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.
pos: noun
examples: Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.
A jellyfish... carries poison cells that can sting other citizens of the sea.
gloss: A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
pos: noun
gloss: A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
pos: noun
gloss: An ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [W]ould Mr. Delvile, who hardly ever spoke but to the high-born, without seeming to think his dignity somewhat injured, deign to receive for a daughter in law the child of a citizen and tradesman?
gloss: A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
historical
usually
examples: Citizen, I desire nothing more than to get to Paris, though I could dispense with the escort.
gloss: A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The HIG delivers Apple's design commandments, the company's definition of what it means to be a good iPhone citizen.
Synonyms: burgess
burgher
denizen
townsman
townswoman
Antonyms: countryfolk
country gentleman
countryman
peasant
villager
Related words: citify
city
civil
civilian
Derived words: anticitizen
birthright citizen
citizen band
citizendom
citizeness
citizenhood
citizenise
citizenish
citizenism
citizenist
citizenization
citizenize
citizen journalism
citizen journalist
citizen king
citizen life
citizenlike
citizenly
citizen magistrate
citizen media
citizen of nature
citizen of the world
citizen prince
citizenry
citizen's arrest
citizens' band
citizens band
Citizens' Charter
citizen science
citizen scientist
citizenship
citizens' media
citizen soldier
citizen sovereign
cocitizen
concitizen
corporate citizen
cybercitizen
dual citizen
e-citizen
fellow citizen
First Citizen
market citizen
NCTzen
netizen
noncitizen
private citizen
protocitizen
semicitizen
shitizen
sovereign citizen
supercitizen
Twittizen
uncitizen
undercitizen
world citizen
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