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{
"term": "citizen",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person who has the legal right to belong to a particular country",
"sensetop": "citizen of something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The defeat of the president did not change the lives of **ordinary citizens** for the better."
},
{
"text": "an economic slowdown that has left millions of our **fellow citizens** unemployed"
},
{
"text": "She's Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen."
},
{
"text": "Polish citizens living in other parts of the European Union"
},
{
"text": "the government's failure to address the concerns of the average citizen"
},
{
"text": "In light of the unrest in the country, the US embassy has urged private citizens to leave."
},
{
"text": "I **became** a naturalized American **citizen** when I was 18."
},
{
"text": "He said the primary responsibility of a state is to **protect** its **citizens **from attack."
},
{
"text": "This shows that the government respects the **rights of citizens**."
},
{
"text": "Some politicians seem to be treating the **citizens of** this **country** with contempt.",
"contextForm": "citizen of something"
},
{
"text": "They are fighting for acceptance as full citizens of the country."
},
{
"text": "Citizens of other European countries do not need work permits."
},
{
"text": "He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States."
},
{
"text": "The issues that interested most French citizens were domestic rather than foreign."
}
],
"topics": ["People in society"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full", "naturalized", "British"],
"phrases": ["somebody’s fellow citizens"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who lives in a particular place",
"sensetop": "citizen of something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "When you're old, people treat you like a **second-class citizen**."
},
{
"text": "There have been meetings of **concerned citizens** over proposed development plans."
},
{
"text": "the decent, **law-abiding citizens** of this city",
"contextForm": "citizen of something"
},
{
"text": "the citizens of Budapest"
},
{
"text": "Our job is to protect the citizens of Belfast and make it a safe city to live in."
},
{
"text": "minorities who felt they had been treated as second-class citizens"
},
{
"text": "This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens."
},
{
"text": "She is a prominent citizen of the town."
},
{
"text": "Gay people have had enough of being treated as second-class citizens."
},
{
"text": "It's not clear how the new law will affect the ordinary citizen."
},
{
"text": "The king was visiting France as a private citizen."
},
{
"text": "lawsuits brought against private citizens"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full", "naturalized", "British"],
"phrases": ["somebody’s fellow citizens"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɪtɪzn/",
"audio": "ci/citizen/citizen__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈsɪtɪzn/",
"audio": "ci/citizen/citizen__us_7.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French citezein, alteration (probably influenced by deinzein ‘denizen’) of Old French citeain, based on Latin civitas ‘city’, from civis ‘citizen’."
}