citizen

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
2. n. A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
3. n. A civilian.
4. n. A native, inhabitant, or denizen of a particular place: "We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community” ( Franklin D. Roosevelt).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A native of a city or town, or one who enjoys the freedom and privileges of the city or town in which he resides; a freeman of a city or town, as distinguished from a foreigner or one not entitled to its franchises.
2. n. Any inhabitant of a city or town, as opposed to an inhabitant of a rural district; a townsman.
3. n. In a restricted sense, a person engaged in trade, as opposed to a person of birth and breeding.
4. n. A member of the state or nation; one bound to the state by the reciprocal obligation of allegiance on the one hand and protection on the other. Persons of the following classes are citizens of the United States: Persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power (except untaxed Indians). This includes children of alien parents other than those of foreign ambassadors, etc. Children born elsewhere to fathers who were, at the time of their birth, citizens at some time resident in the United States. Naturalized persons, including some in effect naturalized by treaty, etc. Women (though not born here nor naturalized) if not incapable of naturalization, and married to citizens, Freedmen under the act of emancipation. Indians born within the United States who have withdrawn from the tribal relation, entered civilized life, and are taxed. Indians who have accepted lands allotted in severalty under the Dawes Bill (1887); but there may be a question whether they practically become citizens before their reservation is thrown open. A person may be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of any particular State, as, for instance, an inhabitant of the District of Columbia. The two citizenships are distinct in legal contemplation, although one is usually held by any person who holds the other; and practically, as a general rule, citizenship in a State consists of citizenship of the United States plus a domicile (that is, a fixed abode) in the State. The right to vote or hold office is not a test of citizenship, for minors and women are commonly citizens without those rights, and there are cases where alines may hold office.
5. n. A private person, as opposed to a civil official or a soldier: as, a police officer in citizen's dress.
6. Having the qualities of a citizen; town-bred; effeminate.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person that is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.
2. n. dated A member of a state that is not a monarchy; used as antonym to subject.
3. n. A person that is a legally recognized resident of a city or town.
4. n. A resident of any particular place to which the subject feels to belong.
5. n. A civilian, as opposed to a soldier, police officer etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
3. n. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
4. n. 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.
5. adj. Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens.
6. adj. obsolete Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

WordNet 3.0

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