Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises. 2. (n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman. 3. (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery. 6. (a.) of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

Multi-Version Concordance Citizen (9 Occurrences) Luke 15:15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs. (Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Acts 21:39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Acts 22:25 But, when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul said to the Captain who stood by, "Does the Law permit you to flog a Roman citizen--and one too who is uncondemned?" (WEY RSV NIV) Acts 22:26 On hearing this question, the Captain went to report the matter to the Tribune. "What are you intending to do?" he said. "This man is a Roman citizen." (WEY RSV NIV) Acts 22:27 So the Tribune came to Paul and asked him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" "Yes," he said. (WEY RSV NIV) Acts 22:28 The commanding officer answered, "I bought my citizenship for a great price." Paul said, "But I was born a Roman." (Root in WEB WEY ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV) Acts 22:29 So the men who had been on the point of putting him under torture immediately left him. And the Tribune, too, was frightened when he learnt that Paul was a Roman citizen, for he had had him bound. (WEY RSV NIV) Acts 23:27 This man Paul had been seized by the Jews, and they were on the point of killing him, when I came upon them with the troops and rescued him, for I had been informed that he was a Roman citizen. (WEY RSV NIV) Hebrews 8:11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying,'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS)