Citizen vs Civility - What's the difference?
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A person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations.
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(dated) A member of a state that is not a monarchy; used in contrast with subject .
A person who is a legally recognized resident of a city or town.
* George Eliot
A resident of any particular place to which the subject feels he/she belongs.
* 2007', John English, '''''Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
A civilian, as opposed to a soldier, police officer etc.
Politeness]]; courtesy; an individual act or a manner of [[behave, behaving which conforms to social conventions of propriety.
* Chesterfield
(obsolete) The state of society in which the relations and duties of a citizen are recognized and obeyed; civilization.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) A civil office, or a civil process.
* Latimer
As nouns the difference between citizen and civility
is that citizen is a person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations while civility is politeness; courtesy; an individual act or a manner of behaving which conforms to social conventions of propriety.citizen
English
(wikipedia citizen)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- When the rebellion broke out, the United States promptly evacuated its citizens from the area.
- That large body of the working men who were not counted as citizens and had not so much as a vote to serve as an anodyne to their stomachs.
Synonyms
* burgher * nationalAntonyms
* alien * illegal * foreigner * stranger * subjectDerived terms
* anticitizen * citizeness * citizenhood * citizenish * citizenly * citizenry * citizenshipAnagrams
*civility
English
(wikipedia civility)Noun
- The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.
- Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility , and fallen again to ruin.
- To serve in a civility .