Citizens People Second Class ˈsɪtɪzn Italian Australian European Treat

• she's italian by birth but is now an australian citizen.
• british citizens living in other parts of the european union
• the citizens of budapest
• when you're old, people treat you like a second-class citizen.

citizen

1. a person who has the legal right to belong to a particular country
• She's Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen.
• British citizens living in other parts of the European Union
2. a person who lives in a particular place
• see also senior citizen
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/senior-citizen
• the citizens of Budapest
• When you're old, people treat you like a second-class citizen.

Extra Examples

• Gay people have had enough of being treated as second-class citizens.
• It’s not clear how the new law will affect the ordinary citizen.
• She is a prominent citizen of the town.
• The king was visiting France as a private citizen.
• They are fighting for acceptance as full citizens of the country.
• This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens.
• a group of indigenous people fighting for acceptance as full citizens of the country
• discounts for senior citizens
• lawsuits brought against private citizens
• minorities who felt they had been treated as second-class citizens
• travel concessions for senior citizens
• Citizens of other European countries do not need work permits.
• He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
• Our job is to protect the citizens of Belfast and make it a safe city to live in.
• She’s Italian by birth, but is now an Australian citizen.
• The issues that interested most French citizens were domestic rather than foreign.
• When you’re old, people treat you like a second-class citizen.

Word Origin

• 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’.