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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
- What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?
USA "American" covers a lot more ground - Mexicans and Canadians are Americans, and some of them object strenuously to equating "American" to "citizen of the USA" Not to mention Brazilians, Ecuadoreans, etc , all of whom are Americans Plus, as a legal matter, the name of the country is not "America"
- 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
- Which term is correct — Afghan or Afghani?
A citizen or native of Afghanistan From an Afghan point of view this name is wrongly being used for Afghans After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan millions of Afghans took refuge in neighboring Pakistan The Pakistanis and the international aid agencies coined this word to speak of Pakistanis versus the Afghans 2
- Whats the difference between denizen, resident, inhabitant?
Citizen, as here compared, applies to a resident of a city or town, especially to one of full age who enjoys the right to vote and other privileges; [example omitted] Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1984) has a nearly identical treatment of the first three words, suggesting that the distinctions didn't change much (in MW's
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