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单词 fellow citizen
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fellow citizenn.

Brit. /ˌfɛləʊ ˈsɪtᵻz(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌfɛloʊ ˈsɪdᵻz(ə)n/, /ˌfɛloʊ ˈsɪdᵻs(ə)n/
Forms: see fellow n. and citizen n. and adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a French lexical item, partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: fellow n., citizen n.
Etymology: < fellow n. + citizen n., after Middle French concitoyen (13th cent. in Old French as concitien ; French concitoyen ), post-classical Latin concivis (early 3rd cent.), and ancient Greek συμπολῖτης (see sympolity n. at sym- prefix ).
A citizen of the same city, state, or other polity as another specified person; (in plural) citizens of the same city, state, or other polity.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman
concitizen1428
co-citizen1488
comburgess1517
fellow citizen1550
townsman1562
conscive1578
town's bairn?1591
comburgher1605
townsfolk1614
townschild1621
city mana1661
townsboy1699
town folk1805
townie1824
townsfellow1830
homeboy1861
homie1929
homes1971
1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War viii. vii. f. ccvv xxvii. shipps did passe out of Peloponese into Ionum..vnder the conduct of Antisthenes Spartian wyth twelue other hys fellowe cytezeins [Fr. concitoyens; Gk. ξυμβούλους].
1578 R. Day Bk. Christian Prayers sig. D.ijv Heauenly life, wherein..the Angels, and holy soules of men are most blessed fellow-Citizens.
1611 Bible (King James) Eph. ii. 19 Yee are..fellow citizens [Gk. συμπολῖται] with the Saints. View more context for this quotation
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. iv. 147 Men of Quality, who had generously stak'd their persons for the good of their fellow Citizens [Fr. Concitoyens].
a1704 T. Brown Pleasant Epist. in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 3 This may serve, Fellow-Citizens, to give you some Idea of the Man.
1758 D. Hume Two Addit. Ess. 188 in Ess. & Treat. (new ed.) A single man can scarce be industrious, where all his fellow-citizens are idle.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. ii. 108 My whole strength,..is, day and night, at the service of my fellow-Citizens.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 387 He is partially coerced into..co-operation with his fellow citizens.
1901 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 6/4Fellow-citizens,’ he shouted, ‘would you listen to that man?’
1963 J. W. Doberstein tr. H. Thielicke Life can begin Again vii. 84 A swindler who takes a certain pleasure in wearing a pious cloak in order to gain credit with his honest fellow citizens and then cheat the daylights out of them.
2012 Gender & Society 26 389 The Ethiopian women..mistook me for a fellow citizen and initiated a conversation.

Derivatives

ˌfellow ˈcitizenship n. the condition or fact of being a fellow-citizen; shared or common citizenship.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > fellow townsman > position of
fellow citizenship1703
1703 J. Galpine Serm. Funeral R. Lawrence 23 Can we Hope for the Priviledges of a Fellow Citizenship with the Saints?
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 323 The city of Neuchatel has also a strict alliance of fellowcitizenship with Berne.
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 311 The ‘Fraternity’..aims to neutralize by fellow-citizenship the diversities..of nature.
2007 Australian (Nexis) 7 Feb. (Literary review) 16 A pluralist society that..promotes the fellow citizenship of Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and atheist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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