citizen
/ˈsɪtɪzən/ noun A2- A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.
- 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.
- An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place. · Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.
- A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
- A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.
- A term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
- A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
Plural citizens
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“All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.” The Fox replied, “You have chosen a most appropriate subject for your falsehoods, as I am sure none of your ancestors will be able to contradict you.”
“True,” replied the marquise, without wincing in the slightest degree at the tragic remembrance thus called up; “but bear in mind, if you please, that our respective parents underwent persecution and proscription from diametrically opposite principles; in proof of which I may remark, that while my family remained among the staunchest adherents of the exiled princes, your father lost no time in joining the new government; and that while the Citizen Noirtier was a Girondin, the Count Noirtier became a senator.”
“Pray, honest friend,” said a citizen, “is that Ass your own?
The Governor then called a public assembly and addressed the citizens: “Of what folly have you been guilty?
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