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citizenry

noun

Etymology

From citizen + -ry. Displaced native Old English burgwaru.

  1. derived from citeain
  2. derived from citesain — “burgher; city-dweller”
  3. inherited from citeseyn
  4. suffixed as citizenry — “citizen + ry”

Definitions

  1. The group of all citizens

    The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.

    • It's one of the main selling points of the prison business: that they keep the sexually non-conformist or "deviant" out of sight of the respectable citizenry, especially to "protect" the children.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for citizenry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA