{
    "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’."
}