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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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- Difference between civic rights and civil rights
The term Civic Rights would have limited use with regard to an individual citizen As to whether the two terms, Civil Rights and Civic Rights, are interchangeable, they are not in most cases Civic applies to rights as a member official with regard to their community
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