- 1全體公民、全體國民
Citizenry means all the citizens of a town, a country, or a state, taken as one group — not this person or that person, but everyone who belongs there. You meet it in news, speeches, and rather formal writing: “the citizenry voted,” “a well-informed citizenry.” Everyday talk usually just says the people or the citizens. It names the whole body of people who have that belonging, a bit like the public, though actually it is tighter than the public: visitors and people passing through are not in the citizenry. It is not the legal paper or the status of being a citizen (that is citizenship), and it is not a fancy word for city.
組成citizen (a person who belongs to a country or town) + -ry (makes a noun for a group, or a state of being). Older English had burgwaru for this idea; citizenry took its place.
同家族的字
- citizenthe person; citizenry is the whole group of them
- citizenshipthe legal status of being a citizen, not the people themselves
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
citizenrynoun
- 1
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.
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