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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. [1913 Webster] 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 [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Citizen \Cit"i*zen\, a. 1. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I am not well, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "citizen": burgess, burgher, citizen by adoption, civilian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, deditician, denizen, dweller, franklin, free citizen, freedman, freedwoman, freeman, freewoman, householder, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, inhabitant, metic, national, native, naturalized citizen, nonbelligerent, noncombatant, nonnative citizen, nonresistant, nonresister, oppidan, ratepayer, resident, subject, taxpayer, towner, townsman, townswoman, villager, voter