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citizen
['sitizn]
n.,

[] , , 市

  1. He is an eminent citizen of China.
  2. Bad official is elected by good citizen who do not vote.
    投票
  3. Bill Gates is an American citizen.
    尔·盖茨




citizen
[ noun ]
a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community
<noun.person>




Citizen \Cit"i*zen\, a.
1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of
citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city;
characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.]

I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick. --Shak.


Citizen \Cit"i*zen\, n. [OE. citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen,
fr. cit['e] city. See {City}, and cf. {Cit}.]
1. One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a
freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or
one not entitled to its franchises.

That 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. --G. Eliot.

2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. --Shak.

3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes
allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal
protection from it.

Note: This protection is . . . national protection,
recognition of the individual, in the face of foreign
nations, as a member of the state, and assertion of his
security and rights abroad as well as at home. --Abbot

4. One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen,
though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense
that he takes his legal status from such country.