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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
- 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
- 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
- grammar - We say U. S. citizen, but why cant we say China citizen . . .
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"
- 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
- Is there a simple word for a person born of immigrants?
My friend's parents are both from Colombia, but he was born here in the U S , and I was wondering if there was a non-offensive term for somebody born of immigrants who is a native citizen
- Difference between voters, electorates and constituents
I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents " Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly
- meaning - Different usage between A First Generation and A Second . . .
(3) somebody who is a citizen of the United States If by American one means (1), then the people who immigrated into the United States are themselves first-generation Americans, their children are second-generation Americans, and so forth If by American one means (2), then the children of the immigrants are the first generation
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