citoyenn.
/ˌsɪtwɑːˈjã/, /ˌsɪtɔɪˈɛn/, U.S. /ˌsɪtɔɪˈ(j)ɛn/, /ˌsɪtwɑˈjɛn/ In France and French-speaking countries: a (usually male) citizen. Also (usually with capital initial) used as a title or form of address during the French Revolution (now historical). Cf. citizen n. 2c.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > one possessing
citizena1325
commoner1384
citinerc1450
free burgher1624
citoyen?1793
national1845
the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > title > for a man > in revolutionary or communist society
citizen1793
citoyen?1793
comrade1884
Ndugu1973
?1793 C. J. Fox Speech Whig Club 8 Citoyen Frost was conducted with much pomp and ceremony to the Convention, where, having got somebody to read a Speech for him, he deposited at the Bar his Cargo.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. i. 16 One Citoyen has wrought out the scheme of a wooden cannon... It is to be made of staves, by the coopers.
1879 Scribner's Monthly Nov. 97/1 He..was going on to denounce further the detestable rumor, when a masker..brought him smartly around with the salutation: ‘Comment to ye, Citoyen Agricola!’
1915 Bloomfield (Indiana) News 3 June 3/4 Citoyen, France accepts the offer of yourself in lieu of one who has passed as Mlle. de Hauteville.
1971 G. W. Johnson Emergence of Black Politics in Senegal i. 24 It is doubtful that many Creoles or assimilated Africans in Senegal understood the meaning of these rights and tried to become citoyens.
2012 Daily Tel. 10 Oct. (Globe trotter section) 1 (heading) He may..[be] an Englishman in France, but novelist Stephen Clarke is proud to have evolved into a convincingly self-important citoyen.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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