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What is a citizen?

What is a citizen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) A resident of a city or town, particularly:
    1. (historical) A freeman or burgher: a legally-recognized member of an incorporated city.
    2. (obsolete) A member of the early modern urban middle class, distinguished from nobles and landed gentry on one side and from peasants, craftsmen, and laborers on the other.
    3. (Christianity) A resident or future resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian.
  2. A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role, particularly:
    1. (dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy.
    2. (historical, usually capitalized) A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists.
  3. An inhabitant: a member of any place.
  4. A private citizen: a civilian, as opposed to a police officer, professional soldier, or other (usually state) group.
  5. (computing) An object.
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By contrast, the citizen scientists would be funded by public money to do just that.
The minister also impressed upon the corporates to empower every citizen with the resource of education.
Any statewide initiative implementation that includes the above elements will be a usable citizen initiative process.
Under EU rules, a citizen of a member state is free to travel and work in any other.
Yes, this Croatia-born Norwegian psychotherapist and practitioner of alternate medicine is a cosmopolitan citizen in the true sense of the term.
After a one-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City, an Australian citizen has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam for drug smuggling.

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