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citizen noun A local resident, especially a native (in contrast to an outsider or newcomer, who is often called a foreigner); hence citizens = local people.

1862 Couch CW Letters (Aug 9) I have been staying for the last five days in a citizens house in taswell. 1911 Shearin East KY Word-list 537 = a native of a locality, as distinguished from a new-comer. 1939 Hall Coll (Emerts Cove TN) There isn’t anyone stays in Greenbrier Cove now except a few rangers and a few fire guards. There isn’t any citizens that lives there at all now. 1957 Combs Lg Sthn High 20 = native, as opposed to an outsider. Used especially to differentiate a lowlander from a mountaineer. For example, one may be from Louisville, but to the Higlander he is not a citizen. However, a North Carolina Highlander is to the Kentucky Highlander a citizen. The resident of Louisville is termed a ferriner. 1958 GSMNP-110:16 It was fine timber up Jakes Creek, but those citizens had cut out a whole lot of it and took out and sold it. 1991 Thomas Sthn Appal 105 I covered a pretty big territory, but I soon found out where to stay. I usually knew th’ kinds of citizens that lived in each community.