CITIZENRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does citizenry mean? 

• CITIZENRY (noun)
  The noun CITIZENRY has 1 sense:

1. the body of citizens of a state or country

  Familiarity information: CITIZENRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITIZENRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of citizens of a state or country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

citizenry; people

Context example:

the Spanish people

Hypernyms ("citizenry" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

Meronyms (members of "citizenry"):

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citizenry"):

country people; countryfolk (people living in the same country; compatriots)

Achaean; Arcado-Cyprians (the ancient Greek inhabitants of Achaea)

Aeolian (the ancient Greek inhabitants of Aeolia)

Dorian (the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC)

Ionian (the ancient Greek inhabitants of Attica and related regions in Ionia)

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)

governed (the body of people who are citizens of a particular government)