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.
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.
Note: 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.