What's the difference between citizen and habitant?

Citizen


Definition:

  • (n.) One who enjoys the freedom and privileges of a city; a freeman of a city, as distinguished from a foreigner, or one not entitled to its franchises.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of a city; a townsman.
  • (n.) A person, native or naturalized, of either sex, who owes allegiance to a government, and is entitled to reciprocal protection from it.
  • (n.) One who is domiciled in a country, and who is a citizen, though neither native nor naturalized, in such a sense that he takes his legal status from such country.
  • (a.) Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a city; characteristic of citizens; effeminate; luxurious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (2) On a weekend that sees the country celebrate 50 years of independence it is certain that despite all things – good and bad – that have taken place in 2013, the next 50 years will be transformed by personal technology, concerned citizens and the media.
  • (3) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
  • (4) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (5) Albrecht said it would represent a great success for the parliament's investigation into mass surveillance of EU citizens.
  • (6) The prime minister and chancellor threaten legal action over any losses incurred by British citizens as banks are nationalized.
  • (7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
  • (8) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (9) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
  • (10) Institutional legitimacy arises from closer links between citizens.
  • (11) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
  • (12) The FCO ask all British citizens to register with the British embassy in Pyongyang and warn that it has limited reach outside the capital.
  • (13) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
  • (14) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (15) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (16) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
  • (17) But I hope that this can close the gap between the police department and the communities, that they can learn to recognise each other as citizens.
  • (18) Friendly visiting programs may prove helpful in informing homebound senior citizens of these health-related community services.
  • (19) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
  • (20) Today no one can doubt that Ukraine is inhabited by European citizens, just like those in England, Germany or Poland.

Habitant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An inhabitant; a dweller.
  • (v. t.) An inhabitant or resident; -- a name applied to and denoting farmers of French descent or origin in Canada, especially in the Province of Quebec; -- usually in plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
  • (2) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (3) The socioeconomic and hygienic features of the patients' homes, some clinical variables, the therapeutic habits and the features of the foci were evaluated.
  • (4) The authors compared the prevalence of atopy in 103 patients with lung cancer (a model of mucosal cancer), 51 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease matched for age, sex, and smoking habits with patients with lung cancer, and 102 healthy control subjects.
  • (5) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (6) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
  • (7) It is stated, that it is impossible to strive to effectively control the smoking habit neither by way of the consulting hours for smokers nor by means of the 5-days-plans.
  • (8) symptoms, bowel habits, normal physical examination, absence of intestinal infections or parasites) b) physiopathological evaluation (hyperactivity of the distal colon, hypersensitivity to stimuli, stress), and c) physiological evaluation of the patient.
  • (9) of age and based upon information about the dietary habits of the child could thus be of value to prevent caries in the preschool child.
  • (10) Population intervention to obtain better health habits and special actions for individuals with risks factors must be employed.
  • (11) No significant differences were found in caries or gingival indices, in oral habits or prophylactic measures between the two groups.
  • (12) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
  • (13) However, no correlation was observed as far as sex, pH of saliva and smoking habits were concerned.
  • (14) Patients with malignant disease are known to have an increased incidence of multinucleation in their tracheobronchial ciliated epithelial cells as compared with controls matched by age, sex and smoking habit.
  • (15) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
  • (16) When age and smoking habits were controlled for, slope of phase III was significantly related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas closing volume and closing capacity were marginally related to hospitalization due to respiratory disease in general but not to hospitalization due to COPD.
  • (17) The present article reports a study of how such lifestyle habits, notably alcohol and tobacco consumption, are addressed in medical consultations.
  • (18) Serum estradiol and estrone levels during oral hormone administration were lower in smokers than in nonsmokers, whereas no differences related to smoking habits were observed during percutaneous hormone administration.
  • (19) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.
  • (20) In addition, eight patient questionnaires were used to assess prescribing habits regarding benzodiazepines.