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.

  2. Laïcité is very poorly disguised antisemitism and Islamophobia.

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

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

Origin

Clipping of citizen.

Clipping of citizen.

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Forms

plural: cits
Singularcit
Pluralcits

regular

See also

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