- 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 Technically speaking, one could never be, for example, a citizen of the Earth -- but we're all denizens of the Earth
- etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen . . .
OED has a note on citizen: The semantic development has been influenced by classical Latin cīvis (see civic adj ) It seems like the semantic drift in citizen, civilian, civic, etc from "city-dweller" to one with legal rights within any governed community involves both legal and military history
- Why isnt citizen spelled as citisen in British English?
Analyze does have the -ize -ise suffix, just a different spelling From the OED: "On Greek analogies the vb would have been analysize, Fr analysiser, of which analyser was practically a shortened form, since, though following the analogy of pairs like annexe, annexe-r, it rested chiefly on the fact that by form-assoc it appeared already to belong to the series of factitive vbs in -iser
- single word requests - What is the demonym for a citizen of Niger . . .
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
- Is there a simple word for a person born of immigrants?
1) A native-born citizen or resident of a country whose parents are foreign born: e g , "first-generation" American, 2) A foreign born citizen or resident who has immigrated to a new country of residence: e g , "first-generation" migrant This ambiguity is captured and corroborated in The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "generation":
- Difference between voters, electorates and constituents
Here's my understanding: A voter is simply an individual person who votes, or potentially votes An electorate is a defined geographic area that votes for the outcome of a single seat, or a set of seats
- meaning - Can I use US-American to disambiguate American? If not . . .
Sure, American can refer to a citizen of the United States, but we could also talk about the Americas, or the American continent (This is not unlike how man can refer to the male gender, or to humankind) It's not something to fight or rail against – when there might be some confusion, simply provide enough context to eliminate the possible
- A citizen of eSwatini - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What should one call a citizen of eSwatini in English? A citizen of eSwatini is called a[n] _____ I can think of the following candidates: a liSwati, a Swati, an eSwatini, a Swazi I'm not asking for an invented word Just for the word that is appropriate now (after the country's name-change)
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