Jul 22, 2017why 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? Mar 22, 2015here 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.
Nov 18, 201412 if a citizen of nigeria is a nigerian, what is a citizen of niger referred to as? Sep 14, 2014we can't say "china citizen", not simply because we already have "chinese citizen", or simply because "china" is not a multi-word country name (or the abbreviation thereof). Citizen if you want to be more specific:
Citizenship identifies an individual's national origin. Jun 14, 2011in many dystopian stories, people call each other citizen. In other contexts too, i'm thinking citizen kane for example.
Jun 6, 2022(3) somebody who is a citizen of the united states.