citizen vs local

citizen

noun
  • A resident of a city or town, especially one with legally-recognized rights or duties. 

  • A term of address among French citizens during the French Revolution or towards its supporters elsewhere; (later, dated) a term of address among socialists and communists. 

  • I am a Roman citizen. 

  • An inhabitant or occupant: a member of any place. 

  • An object. 

  • A legally-recognized member of a state, with associated rights and obligations; a person considered in terms of this role. 

  • A resident of the heavenly city or (later) of the kingdom of God: a Christian; a good Christian. 

  • A civilian, as opposed to a police officer, soldier, or member of some other specialized (usually state) group. 

local

noun
  • A person who lives near a given place. 

  • A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter. 

  • One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar. 

  • An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors. 

  • A locally scoped identifier. 

  • An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published. 

  • A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union. 

adv
  • In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc. 

adj
  • Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global 

  • Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism. 

  • Connected directly to a particular computer, processor, etc.; able to be accessed offline. 

  • From or in a nearby location. 

  • Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program. 

  • Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole. 

  • Descended from an indigenous population. 

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