citizens
Voters and taxpayers
Citizens are people who legally belong to a country, entitled to its protections and subject to its laws.
Citizenship comes by birth or naturalization: American citizens, naturalized citizens.
The word extends to inhabitants of cities or participants in communities: citizens of the internet, senior citizens.
A citizen's arrest is a detention by an ordinary person rather than police.
People living somewhere
- localsArea's permanent inhabitants
- denizensInhabitants of a place
- populaceInhabitants of a place
- communityCollective of connected people
townsfolk · villagers · urbanites · suburbanites · dwellers · natives · folk · neighbors
Collective of connected people
- participationAct of taking part
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
- engagementCommitment to wed or attend
volunteerism · activism · solidarity · cohesion · welfare · collective · values · norms
Government-issued travel credential
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
- expatriateOne living abroad permanently
diaspora · allegiance · patriotism · homeland · compatriot · countrymen · birthright · oath
Of city government
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- mayorElected head of municipality
- townhallLocal governance headquarters
- assemblyConstructing from components
ordinance · bylaws · zoning · public works · infrastructure · alderman · charter · governance
residents
People living somewhere
community · townsfolk · villagers · urbanites · suburbanites · dwellers · natives · folk · neighbors · homeowners
community
Collective of connected people
- participationAct of taking part
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
- responsibilitiesDuties one must fulfill
engagement · volunteerism · activism · solidarity · cohesion · welfare · collective · values · norms · social contract
passport
Government-issued travel credential
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- emigrantPerson resettling in another nation
expatriate · diaspora · allegiance · patriotism · homeland · compatriot · countrymen · birthright · oath · green card
municipal
Of city government
- councilAdvisory deliberative group
- mayorElected head of municipality
- townhallLocal governance headquarters
assembly · ordinance · bylaws · zoning · public works · infrastructure · alderman · charter · governance · administration
voters
Those who cast ballots
franchise · democracy · electoral · candidates · campaigns · turnout · registration · primaries · caucuses · referendum
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, ballot
- governancegovernance, government, democracy, vote, parliament
- human groupstribe, clan, class, caste, crowd
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- CanadiansCeline Dion, Justin Bieber, Drake, Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey
citizensaliens
Beings from other worlds
foreigners · non-citizens · illegal aliens · undocumented immigrants · immigrants
citizensstrangers
People unknown to you
outsiders · foreigners · aliens · interlopers · newcomers
- senior citizenAged person, typically retired
- citizens' arrestsPrivate persons detaining suspects
- good citizenLaw-abiding community participant
- second-class citizenOne denied equal treatment
- citizen's arrestCivilian detaining suspected criminal
- fellow citizenOne sharing nationality