Cit

//sɪt// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman. archaic, derogatory

    "[…] the women of quality are frightened to see merchants wives and daughters dressed like themselves: this impudence of the city, they cry, is intolerable; mantua-makers are sent for, and the contrivance of fashions becomes all their study, that they may have always new modes ready to take up, as soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being."

  2. 2
    Clipping of citation abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
  3. 3
    Initialism of collagen induction therapy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 4
    Initialism of counselor-in-training. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Synonyms

All synonyms
microneedlingurban dweller

Example

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"Paris was born, as we know, in the old island of la Cité which has the shape of a cradle."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of citizen.

Etymology 2

Clipping of citation.

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