Citizenship
['sɪtɪzən,ʃɪp] or ['sɪtɪzənʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) conduct as a citizen; 'award for good citizenship'.
(noun.) the status of a citizen with rights and duties.
Editor: Woodrow--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is doubtful if they took to city life and citizenship straight away. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Others had self-government and the right to trade or marry in Rome, without full Roman citizenship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They extended their citizenship cautiously but steadily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 89 B.C. all free inhabitants of Italy became Roman citizens; in 212 A.D. the citizenship was extended to all free men in the empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And was not the new education an enemy to good citizenship, because it set up a rival standard to the established traditions of the community? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The need to keep communications open in this great and growing mass of citizenship was evident from the first. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To the Athenians or the Spartans it would mean letting in a lot of foreigners to the advantages of citizenship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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