cit
/sɪt/
cit noun: a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman. Also the clipping of citation.
Noun (1)
cit (plural cits)
- a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
- […] 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...1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
- Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.1760 January 28 (first performance), [Samuel] Foote, The Minor, a Comedy. […], London: […] J. Coote, […]; G[eorge] Kearsly, […]; T[homas] Davies, […], published 1760, →OCLC, Act II, page 56
Noun (2) capitalized: CIT
CIT (countable and uncountable, plural CITs)
- Initialism of collagen induction therapy.
- Initialism of counselor-in-training.
Also used as
cit is also the clipping of citation.
Examples of cit in a sentence
- Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza:
- If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published...
- As a new-comer in the township, as a cit, and a devotee to beer, Cummings was an excuse to keep an eye on Millie[.]1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 154:
Forms of cit
| plural | cits |
|---|---|
| alternative form | cit. |
| plural | CITs |
Origin of cit
Clipping of citizen.
Clipping of citation.
Words formed from cit
Words that rhyme with cit
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Questions about cit
- What does cit mean?
- Cit means a citizen; a city dweller, a townsman.
- How do you use cit in a sentence?
- Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.
- What part of speech is cit?
- Cit is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cit?
- Cit is pronounced /sɪt/.
- What is the plural of cit?
- The plural of cit is cits.
Words near cit in the dictionary
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