Cit"i*zen , a.
1. Having the condition or qualities of a
citizen, or of citizens; as, a
citizen soldiery.
2. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of
citizens; effeminate; luxurious. [Obs.]
I am not well,
But not so citizen a wanton as
To seem to die ere sick.
Shak.
Cit"i*zen (?), n. [OE.
citisein, OF. citeain, F. citoyen, fr. cité 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.
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.
2. An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
Shak.
3. A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection
from it.
&fist; 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
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.
Hear it pronounced