citizenry

English

Etymology

citizen +‎ -ry

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

citizenry (countable and uncountable, plural citizenries)

1. The group of all citizens; citizens taken collectively.
   • 1983 December 10, Mike Riegle, “Sexual Politics of "Crime": Inside and Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 5:

     It's one of the main selling points of the prison business: that they keep the sexually non-conformist or "deviant" out of sight of the respectable citizenry, especially to "protect" the children.

Translations

the group of all citizens

• Czech: občanstvo n
• Esperanto: civitanaro
• Finnish: kansalaiset (fi) pl
• French: corps des citoyens m, citoyens (fr) m pl, population (fr) f
• Hindi: नागरिक वर्ग m (nāgrik varg)
• Hungarian: polgárság (hu)
• Italian: cittadinanza (it) f
• Macedonian: граѓанство n (graǵanstvo)
• Polish: obywatele m pl
• Portuguese: cidadania (pt) f
• Russian: гра́ждане (ru) m pl (gráždane)
• Serbo-Croatian: гра̏ђа̄нство / građanstvo (sh)
• Spanish: ciudadanía (es) f