Citizen

Definition: Citizen

Citizen

Noun

1. A native or naturalized member of a state or other political community.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "citizen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Government

Be governed by, be in the power of, be a subject of, be a citizen of.

Inhabitant

Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.

Philanthropy

Philanthropist, endaemonist, utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis; knight errant; patriot.

Crosswords: Citizen

Latin (citizen).

So, how does it feel to be a solid citizen again (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp)

Elvis Presley was a model citizen. I've compiled a list of his traits for you to practice (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

That makes Rick a citizen of the world (Casablanca; writing credit: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play 'Everybody Comes to Rick's' by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.)

Citizen Dildo (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

The bad date, the bad sport, the bad citizen (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Une légende une vie: Citizen Welles (1974)

Citizen Harold (1971)

Damn Citizen (1958)

Elder Citizen (1956)

Citizen Varek (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Citizen Electronics Company, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Citizen Watch Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Citizen of the Galaxy (reference)

• Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (Helix Books) (reference)

• The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chatham-southeast Citizen (reference)

• Citizen (reference)

• Citizen Journal (reference)

• Citizen News (reference)

• Citizen Participation (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Citizen Kane (Special Edition) (reference)

• Citizen X (reference)

• Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Citizen Cope (reference)

• Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980 [BOX SET] (reference)

• Upright Citizen (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Giants Citizen Kabuto (Mac) (reference)

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto (reference)

• CITIZEN BA-904 AC Adapter (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Krups 215-17 Citizen Home Shoeshine Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Uncle Sam's youngest son Citizen Know Nothing. Credit: Library of Congress.

A shield for every law abiding citizen. Credit: Library of Congress.

Future pastimes. Night life in America -- average citizen receiving a message from the spirit world. Credit: Library of Congress.

Citizen Genet formally presented to Washington / Pyle. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. allotting surveyor and his interpreter making an American citizen of Chief American Horse, Oglala Sioux. Credit: Library of Congress.

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Alaska Citizen building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Citizen of Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Citizen, Lancaster, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress.

Life of George Washington--The citizen / painted by Stearns ; lith. by Régnier, imp. Lemercier, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Clause 3: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. (reference)

The Governing Commission provided for by paragraph 16 shall consist of five members chosen by the Council of the League of Nations, and will include one citizen of France, one native inhabitant of the Saar Basin, not a citizen of France, and three members belonging to three countries other than France or Germany. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If it be not inconvenient to you, pray let us go in, that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury

Henceforth, it ceases to be a reality of my life, I am a citizen of somewhere else

A citizen came along with a lantern

SECOND CITIZEN.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

There is particular need to involve citizen groups who direct their efforts toward the older person. (references)

Business

The private citizen also is concerned about protection. (references)

In November 1996, the IFE recognized 24 citizen organizations. (references)

Uzbekistan is still a cash society and due to lack of trust for the local banks, most of the transactions are made in cash. The role of the banks has not yet taken the vital place in the daily life of the average citizen. (references)

Children

Chad

The law considers any citizen under the age of 18 years as a minor. (references)

Kuwait

Citizen parents also receive a monthly government allowance for each child. (references)

Kuwait

Citizen boys and girls receive a free education, which extends through the university level, including advanced degrees. (references)

Civil Liberties

Macedonia

Only a citizen may establish a religious group. (references)

Fiji

Every citizen has the right to enter and remain in the country. (references)

Panama

Gorriti, a Peruvian citizen, departed the country during the year. (references)

Discrimination

Laos

Although the Government at times took action when well-documented and obvious cases of discrimination came to the attention of high-level officials, the legal mechanism whereby a citizen may bring charges of discrimination against an individual or organization is neither well developed nor widely understood among the general population. (references)

Economic History

Qatar

They should deal directly through a Qatari citizen or firm as agent. (references)

Uae

A sponsor may be a UAE citizen or an institution, such as a free zone. (references)

Human Rights

Qatar

The number of citizen judges is increasing. (references)

Luxembourg

An administrative court system reviews citizen challenges to legislation. (references)

Belize

Of the four justices sitting on the Supreme Court, only one is a citizen. (references)

Minorities

Bhutan

A royal decree in 1991 made forcible expulsion of a citizen a criminal offense. (references)

Germany

Newspapers reported that open opposition to the project was voiced at citizen meetings with the city administration. (references)

Yemen

Nonetheless, many senior government officials, including Members of Parliament and ministers, have only one citizen parent. (references)

Political Economy

Costa Rica

A U.S. citizen and a Costa Rican squatter died during a confrontation over land ownership in 1997. (references)

Kuwait

Kuwaiti citizen workers, 92 percent of whom are government employees, have the right to join unions. (references)

Costa Rica

Multiple claims to a single piece of land have created problems for numerous U.S. citizen investors. (references)

Political Rights

Guyana

Any citizen 18 years or older may register to vote. (references)

Monaco

The Council of State is presided over by the Director of Judicial Services, usually a French citizen. (references)

Mauritania

Each citizen votes by entering a booth where they place the card of their candidate of choice into a sealed envelope. (references)

Trade

Bahrain

For public tenders, a foreign company must have a local representative who must be a Bahraini citizen. (references)

Burma

Effective July 1, 2000, Burmese citizen entrepreneurs may remit a maximum of $10,000 per month of FEC earnings in exchange for the right to import. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's Copyright Law does not extend protection to works that were first displayed outside of Saudi Arabia, unless the author is a Saudi citizen. (references)

Travel

Spain

Neither group has ever targeted a U.S. citizen. (references)

Latvia

AMERICAN CITIZEN ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: A passport valid for at least six months is required. (references)

Bulgaria

A visa is not required for U.S. citizen visitors using regular passports for stays up to 30 days. (references)

Women

Palau

A case against a Philippine citizen was pending at year's end. (references)

Lebanon

Citizen widows may confer citizenship on their minor children. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Citizen and noncitizen women constitute 15 percent of the national workforce. (references)

Worker Rights

Tunisia

The few foreign workers have the same protections as citizen workers. (references)

Chad

All workers--foreign, citizen, legal, or illegal--are protected under the Labor Code. (references)

Macau

Citizen workers demonstrated against the importation of foreign laborers several times during the year. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "citizen": active citizen ♦ american citizen ♦ be a citizen of ♦ become citizen ♦ citizen band ♦ citizen bander ♦ citizen Genet ♦ citizen of ♦ citizen of the world ♦ citizen rights ♦ citizen soldier ♦ fellow citizen ♦ naturalised citizen ♦ naturalized citizen ♦ nonresident citizen ♦ private citizen ♦ resident citizen ♦ senior citizen ♦ soviet citizen ♦ swiss citizen ♦ US citizen ♦ voting age citizen. Additional references.

Beginning with "citizen": citizen-advocacy, citizen-authority, citizen-centred, citizen-intellectual, citizen-reader, citizen-slob, citizen-soldier, citizen-soldiers, citizen-state, citizen-suit.

Ending with "citizen": eco-citizen, pseudo-citizen.

Afrikaans

burger (hamburger, middleclass, middleclass citizen). (various references)

Albanian

civil (civil, civilian, plain clothes), shtetas, qytetar (civic, civil, freeman, oppidan, townee, townsman). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مواطن مدني, ‏مواطن (civilian, inhabitant, national, resident), ‏تابع (adherent, attached, dependent, disciple, follow, follow up, follower, following, forward, function, get on, go ahead, keep an eye on, page, post, press, pursue, put up with, redirect, satellite, send on, sub, subject, subordinate, subsequent, subservient, subsidiary, tributary, under one's thumb, underlying, urge, vassal), ‏المديني أحد سكان المدينة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

цивилно лице (civilian), гражданин (cad, national, oppidan, subject, townee, townsman), поданик (liege, liege man, national, subject). (various references)

Chinese 

公民 . (various references)

Czech

státní příslušník (national, subject), obèan (inhabitant, national, subject). (various references)

Danish

statsborger. (various references)

Dutch

staatsburger, burger (middleclass citizen). (various references)

Esperanto

civitano. (various references)

Faeroese

borgari (middleclass citizen). (various references)

Farsi 

تابع (Accessory, Adjective, Ancillary, Function, Incident, Passive, Sub, Submission, Subsidiary, Suffragan, Tributary), تبعه یک کشور, رعیت (Cotter, Peasant, Vassal), شهروند (National). (various references)

Finnish

porvari (bourgeois, burgess, middleclass citizen), kansalainen (fellow-citizen, fellow-countryman, national). (various references)

French

citoyen. (various references)

Frisian

boarger (middleclass citizen). (various references)

German

Staatsbürger (citizens, national, nationals, subject), Bürger (bourgeois, burgess, burgesses, burgher, citizens, commoner, Freeman, middleclass citizen, townsman, townsmen). (various references)

Greek 

κάτοικοσ (dweller, habitant, inhabitant, resident), πολίτησ (civilian), πολίτης, υπήκοοσ (national, obedient, subject). (various references)

Hebrew 

אזרח (civilian, denizen, native, subject). (various references)

Hungarian

polgári személy (gownsman), állampolgár (subject). (various references)

Icelandic

ríkisborgari. (various references)

Indonesian

warga negara. (various references)

Irish

saoránach. (various references)

Italian

cittadino (Burgess, burgher, city-, national, subject, urban). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

本国人 (native), 公民 (freemen), 国民　 (national, people), 国民 (national, people), 市民 (townspeople). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しみ�" (deep sleep, the four social classes, the masses, torpor, townspeople), ほ�"�"くじ�" (native), �"くみ�" (national, people), �"うみ�" (freemen). (various references)

Korean 

시민 (Burgess, citizenry, Civil). (various references)

Manx

seyranagh, fer baghee (dweller, inhabitant, resident). (various references)

Norwegian

statsborger, borger. (various references)

Papiamen

ciudadanu (middleclass citizen), merikano (American, US citizen). (various references)

Pig Latin

itizencay.(various references)

Polish

Amerykanin (American, US citizen). (various references)

Portuguese

cidadão (acolyte, burgess, burgher, commoner, denizen, liege, member, mister, patron, supporter, townee). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

cidadão. (various references)

Romanian

civil (civil, civilian), cetãţean (bird, Burgess, burgher, cove, denizen, dog, duck, fellow, Freeman, Jack, Johnny, joker, national, native, party), orãşean (bourgeois, burgher, oppidan, townsman, townspeople), burghez (bourgeois-landlord, burgher, petit bourgeois). (various references)

Russian 

гражданин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podanik (subject, vassal), građanin (burgher, townsman), državljanin. (various references)

Spanish

ciudadano (burgher, civic, town). (various references)

Swahili

mwamerikani (American, US citizen). (various references)

Swedish

medborgare (citizens, civic, Freeman, national), borgare (Burgess). (various references)

Tagalog

Amerikano (American, US citizen). (various references)

Thai

ประชาชน (folk, national). (various references)

Turkish

yurttaş (compatriot, fellow countryman, national), vatandaş (compatriot, country woman, countryman, countrywoman, fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman, man in the street, national, subject), uyruk (nationality, subject, vassal), sivil kimse, sakin (airless, calm, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled), ikamet eden kimse (denizen, habitant, indweller, resident), hemşehri (countryman, countrywoman, fellow countryman, fellow countrywoman, fellow townsman, townsman). (various references)

Turkmen 

grajjdan (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

цивільна особа (civilian, gownsman), громадяка, громадянин (national), городянка, городянин (oppidan, urban), мешканець міста (oppidan), житель (denizen, inmate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người theo chủ nghĩa siêu quốc gia, người dân th� nh thị công dân. (various references)

Welsh

dinesydd. (various references)

cison, citizen, civem, cives, civi, civibus, civis, civium, municeps. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.