Meaning

1 senses
  1. (archaic, derogatory)A citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Laïcité is an embarrassment to the secular world.

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  2. Laïcité is very poorly disguised antisemitism and Islamophobia.

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  3. French activists use the portmanteau "catholaïcité" for the fake secularism displayed by the French state.

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  4. Paris was born, as we know, in the old island of la Cité which has the shape of a cradle.

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Origin

Clipping of citizen.

Clipping of citizen.

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Forms

plural: cits
Singularcit
Pluralcits

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcitess

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cit — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto