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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 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
Why cant you say China citizen? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 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" (see below) Also, United States doesn't have a corresponding preposed adjectival demonym, but China does
single word requests - Citizen is to citizenry as subject is to . . . Edit To my understanding, a 'citizen' is an individual person, 'citizens' a number of them, and a 'citizenry' a conceptual singular actor directed by popular will Since individuals living under particular constitutional arrangements might be designated subjects but not citizens, is there a word that describes a collective entity that is
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)
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 He is citizen possible without the indefinite article a? Examples of he she is citizen US US Immigration Act of 1924 (all bold font added by me): An immigrant born in the United States who has lost his United States citizenship shall be considered as having been born in the country of which he is citizen or subject, or if he is not a citizen or subject of any country, then in the country from which he comes
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 - 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