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CITIZENRY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does citizenry mean?

• CITIZENRY (noun)
The noun CITIZENRY has 1 sense:

1. the body of citizens of a state or country

Familiarity information: CITIZENRY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CITIZENRY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The body of citizens of a state or country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

citizenry; people

Context example:

the Spanish people

Hypernyms ("citizenry" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Meronyms (members of "citizenry"):

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citizenry"):

country people; countryfolk (people living in the same country; compatriots)

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)

governed (the body of people who are citizens of a particular government)

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