1
as in national
a person who owes allegiance to a government and is protected by it
conscientious citizens who regard voting as a duty as well as a right
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as in villager
a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis
claimed that the good citizens of the town were sick of high property taxes
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Recent Examples of citizen
Thus unleashed, my childhood self would go mad with unchecked power, petulantly turning dials just to see what happened to the citizens in my virtual ant farm.
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Social media companies have turned our differences into entertainment, our disagreements into blood sport, and our fellow citizens into enemies.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Two Belarusian citizens were detained.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
Several embassies have warned citizens against traveling to the mining site area due to the ongoing health risks.
—Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
Social media companies have turned our differences into entertainment, our disagreements into blood sport, and our fellow citizens into enemies.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Two Belarusian citizens were detained.
—Tara Suter, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
Several embassies have warned citizens against traveling to the mining site area due to the ongoing health risks.
—Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for citizen
Noun
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But in total, 475 people, mostly Korean nationals, were arrested, suspected of living and working in the US illegally.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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The horns, smuggled from Angola, were seized, and the Vietnamese national involved was arrested.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The werewolves lie, but villagers also sometimes lie—to try to catch someone else in a lie.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
17 Sep. 2025
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In The Three Amigos, a trio of American actors who have played heroic gunslingers in a series of popular silent films, are accidentally hired by the villagers of Santa Poco to protect them from the villainous bandit leader, El Guapo, who kidnaps a beautiful villager to be his unwilling bride.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At least 900 tourists were stranded near the Inca citadel on Tuesday after the train service PeruRail was suspended on Monday because the route was blocked amid protests between local residents and authorities, Reuters reported.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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And city residents will pay $5 a day to park in lots a farther out.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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And sticking close to home may pay untold dividends for inhabitants’ mental health, Gorman said.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Set in a downtown Mexico City backstreet whose inhabitants’ lives are closely interwoven, the film is split into four clear parts.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Citizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/citizen. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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