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citizen

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  • Regno Unito//ˈsɪtɪzən//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈsɪtɪzən//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈsɪtɪsən//

A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.

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  1. 1

    A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally recognized rights or duties.

    [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.

  2. 2

    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.

    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.

  3. 3

    An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place.

    Diogenes reckoned himself a citizen of the world.

    A jellyfish... carries poison cells that can sting other citizens of the sea.

  4. 4

    A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.

  5. 5

    A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group.

  6. 6

    obsoletoAn ordinary person, as opposed to nobles and landed gentry on one side and peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.

    [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?

  7. 7

    storicoA term of address among supporters of the French Revolution in France or elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.

    Citizen, I desire nothing more than to get to Paris, though I could dispense with the escort.

  8. 8

    figuratoA notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.

    The HIG delivers Apple's design commandments, the company's definition of what it means to be a good iPhone citizen.

Etimologia

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.

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