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- What is the difference between citizen and denizen
A citizen of the United States is a legal resident who has been processed by the government as being a member of the United States A denizen of the United States is simply someone that lives there
- What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
Also see Can I use “US-American” to disambiguate “American”? If not, what can I use? and Is ‘USAers’ just an ordinary English word today? As a broad rule, United States of America is essentially never used attributively— you are a U S citizen, a United States citizen, or an American citizen
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen . . .
Why is citizen used to describe an inhabitant of a country when the word is derived from the Latin for city (civitas) and originally meant a city dweller? Wouldn’t the nouns derived from ‘country
- single word requests - What is the demonym for a citizen of Niger . . .
12 If a citizen of Nigeria is a Nigerian, what is a citizen of Niger referred to as? The Wikipedia article on Niger and the online Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries say that the proper term is Nigerien, as Vogel612 points out below
- Why isnt citizen spelled as citisen in British English?
28 There is a suffix that is written only as -ize in American English and often -ise in British English (but not always, as ShreevatsaR points out in the comments) This suffix attaches to a large number of words, thus the s z alternation shows up in a large number of words Citizen does not have the -ize -ise suffix
- We say U. S. citizen, but why cant we say China citizen? Or can we?
So by analogy with U S citizen, you think you can say China citizen, but Chinese citizen blocks it U S citizen is different either because it predates American citizen or it means something different e g , it's shorthand for the legal term "citizen of the united states"
- Whats the difference between denizen, resident, inhabitant?
Here is the Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942) entry for the three words (plus citizen): Inhabitant, denizen, resident, citizen are here compared as meaning one whose home or dwelling place is in a definite location
- meaning - What is implied in calling someone Citizen? - English . . .
In many dystopian stories, people call each other citizen In other contexts too, I'm thinking Citizen Kane for example Why? What is implied here?
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