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noun

inhabitant, denizen, national, subject, native, taxpayer, burgher, burgess, cosmopolite, commoner, civilian, urbanite, member of the community, householder, occupant, settler, aborigine, registered voter, voter, dweller, immigrant, naturalized person, townsman, freeman, the man in the street, villager, member of the body politic, John Q. Public*, Jane Q. Public*, see also compatriot, resident.

citizen refers to a member of a state or nation, esp. one with a republican government, who owes it allegiance and is entitled to full civil rights either by birth or naturalization; subject is the term used when the government is headed by a monarch or other sovereign; national is applied to a person residing away from the country of which he or she is, or once was, a citizen or subject; native refers to one who was born in the country under question, and is applied specifically to an original or indigenous inhabitant of the region

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