citizen
Other forms: citizens
It's pretty hard to be on this planet and not be recognized as a citizen of somewhere. You can be a citizen of a city, a country, or the world. Citizen can mean "an inhabitant of a particular place."
To be recognized as an official citizen of a town, city, or country, one typically has to meet certain requirements. In return, one gets certain rights, such as the right to vote. In other uses, a citizen may just be someone who lives in a place, such as a "citizen of the world." That's a nice thing to be, but it's not going to get you social security payments when you retire.
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a native or naturalized member of a state or other political communityantonyms:noncitizena person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your countrytypes:active citizena citizen who takes an active role in the community (as in crime prevention and neighborhood watch)civiliana nonmilitary citizenprivate citizena citizen who does not hold any official or public positionrepatriatea person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restoredthanea man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land)constituenta member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votescrossover, crossover votera voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another partyfloatera voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same electionfloating voter, swing votera voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other
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