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 someone that lives there.

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 male gender, or to humankind).

Dec 6, 2016 · My friend's parents are both from Colombia, but he was born here in the U.S., and I was wondering if there was a non-offensive term for somebody born of immigrants who is a native citizen.

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 attaches to a large number of words, thus the s/z alternation shows up in a large number of words. Citizen does not have the -ize/-ise suffix.

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 home or dwelling place is in a definite location.

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 from ‘country...

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 term is Nigerien, as Vogel612 points out below.

I'm reading an English text about politics, and in one paragraph I found "voters," "electorates" and "constituents." Now I would like to know if they are absolutely the same, or if they have slightly

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 something different. e.g., it's shorthand for the legal term "citizen of the united states".

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 America is essentially never used attributively— you are a U.S. citizen, a United States citizen, or an American citizen.