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  1. What is the difference between "citizen" and "denizen"

    Jul 8, 2011 · 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 …

  2. etymology - Why is the inhabitant of a country called a “citizen ...

    Jul 22, 2017 · 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 …

  3. Why isn't "citizen" spelled as "citisen" in British English?

    Oct 4, 2010 · 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 …

  4. grammar - We say "U.S. citizen", but why can't we say "China …

    Sep 14, 2014 · 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 …

  5. single word requests - What is the demonym for a citizen of Niger ...

    Nov 18, 2014 · 12 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 …

  6. What is my Nationality: United States of America or American?

    Jan 26, 2017 · 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 …

  7. What's the difference between denizen, resident, inhabitant?

    Mar 22, 2015 · Here 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 …

  8. adjectives - Most concise way to describe people of multiple ...

    Aug 4, 2019 · A problem I'm having is finding a concise way to differentiate between when people are a citizen of one country but have family origins in another, and dual citizens. For example, …

  9. meaning - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Oct 21, 2012 · 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 …

  10. A citizen of eSwatini - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Apr 30, 2018 · 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. …