citizen [sit-uh-zuhn, -suhn]
Main Entry:
citizen [sit-uh-zuhn, -suhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person native of country
Synonyms: John/Jane Q. Public, aborigine, burgess, burgher, civilian, commoner, cosmopolite, denizen, dweller, freeman/woman, householder, inhabitant, member of body politic, member of community, national, native, naturalized person, occupant, resident, settler, subject, taxpayer, townsperson, urbanite, villager, voter
Notes: a denizen is someone who inhabits a particular place while a citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state, city, town, or other political community
Antonyms: alien, foreigner, immigrant
Main Entry: commonwealth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political or geographic area
Synonyms: body politic, citizenry, citizens, commonality, democracy, federation, nation, people, polity, republic, society
Notes: a republic is a state or nation where the supreme power lies with its citizens; a commonwealth is an allied group of republics
Main Entry: constituent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: voting
Synonyms: balloter, citizen, electing, electoral, official, overruling
Main Entry: country
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political territory; nation
Synonyms: citizenry, citizens, commonwealth, community, constituents, electors, grass roots, homeland, inhabitants, kingdom, land, native land, patria, people, polity, populace, public, realm, region, society, soil, sovereign state, state, terrain, voters
Main Entry: denizen
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: resident
Synonyms: citizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, inhabiter, liver, national, native, occupant, resider, subject
Antonyms: alien, foreigner, immigrant
Main Entry: inhabitant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is resident of habitation
Synonyms: aborigine, addressee, autochthon, boarder, citizen, colonist, denizen, dweller, householder, incumbent, indweller, inmate, lessee, lodger, native, neighbor, occupant, occupier, renter, resider, roomer, settler, squatter, suburbanite, tenant, urbanite
Main Entry: native
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person born in the country in which he/she dwells
Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, autochthon, citizen, dweller, home towner, indigene, inhabitant, local, national
Antonyms: alien, foreigner, immigrant, stranger
Main Entry: people
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: human beings
Synonyms: John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe
Antonyms: animals, plants
Main Entry: public
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: people of community; people interested in something
Synonyms: audience, bodies, buyers, citizens, clientele, commonalty, community, country, electorate, everyone, followers, following, heads, masses, men and women, mob, multitude, nation, patrons, people, populace, population, society, suite, supporters, voters
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