2COUNTRY/NATIONsomeone who legally belongs to a particular country and has rights and responsibilities there, whether they are living there or not 公民,国民 → national
At the time, there were over 2,000 British citizens living in Iraq.
当时有2,000多名英国公民生活在伊拉克。
3.second-class citizenUNIMPORTANTsomeone who is made to feel unimportant because of the way people treat them 二等公民
Examples from the Corpus
second-class citizen• One danger of treating all crime as sickness is that it makes the criminal a second-class citizen.• They want to treat all Arabs as slaves and second-class citizens.• Here we are, second-class citizens in our own country.• Private car-owners have become second-class citizens.• We did not have a chance to mingle with Okinawansthey were considered second-class citizens.• Women were very definitely second-class citizens.• Some speak resentfully of a takeover by the Wessis, with themselves marked out for the role of second-class citizens.• But they remainedsecond-class citizens as the Service restocked itself with young men of the right background from Oxford and Cambridge.
nCOLLOCATIONS – Meaning 1 : someone who lives in a particular town, country, or state
adjectives
a good citizen
One of the aims of education is to produce good citizens.
a law-abiding citizen (=never breaking the law)
Most of the people in this town are law-abiding citizens.
a respectable/decent citizen (=good and honest)
There are gangs on the streets who are terrorizing respectable citizens.
an upstanding/upright citizen (=honest and responsible)
The rest of his family are honest upright citizens.
a model citizen (=a very good one)
His neighbours described him as a model citizen.
an ordinary citizen (also a regular citizenAmerican EnglishAmE)
The government is not aware of the views of ordinary citizens.
a senior citizen (=someone over 60 years old, or someone who has retired)
There are special clubs for senior citizens.
somebody’s fellow citizens (=people who live in the same town, country etc as you)
70% of our fellow citizens live in poverty.
a private citizen (=an ordinary citizen without a public position)
Laws exist to protect private citizens.
a leading/prominent citizen (=an important one)
The protests were led by leading citizens in the community.
nTHESAURUS
citizen someone who lives in a particular town, country, or state
In order to become a US citizen, you need to have a Permanent Resident card.
All British citizens have the right to live in the UK.
Good citizens understand that they have a responsibility to the community.
national a citizen of a country who is living in another country
She insisted that foreign nationals were safe in the country.
Russians nationals were ordered to leave.
Her husband is a French national.
resident someone who lives in a particular street or area
There have been complaints by local residents about the building work.
She was a resident of Chicago for many years.
native someone who was born in a particular country but moved to another country – used when describing a person or their life
Picasso was a native of Spain, although he spent much of his life in France.
subject someone who was born in a country that has a king or queen, and has a right to live there
Northern Ireland citizens are British subjects.
alien formal someone who is not a legal citizen of the country they are living or working in – used in officialcontexts