Citizen vs Civilization - 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.
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
The act or process of civilizing]] or becoming [[civilize, civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
(obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised]], as savages or [[barbarian, barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
As nouns the difference between citizen and civilization
is that citizen is a person who is legally recognized as a member of a state, with associated rights and obligations while civilization is an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.As a proper noun civilization is
collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised Worldcitizen
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
*civilization
Alternative forms
* civilisation (UK)Noun
(en noun)- the Aztec civilization
- Western civilization
- Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
- A hermit doesn't much care for civilization .
- I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
- The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
- He was a man of great civilization .