ˌfellow-ˈcitizen
[fellow n. 11 c.]
A citizen of the same city or polity as another.
| 1578 Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 448 The angels, and holy souls of men, are most blessed fellow-citizens. 1611 Bible Eph. ii. 19 Yee are..fellow citizens with the Saints. a 1704 T. Brown Pleas. Epist. Wks. 1730 I. 109 This may serve, fellow-citizens, to give you some idea of the man. 1752 Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 348 A single man can scarcely be industrious, where all his fellow-citizens are idle. 1873 H. Spencer Stud. Sociol. vi. 387 He is partially coerced into..co-operation with his fellow citizens. |
Hence ˌfellow-ˈcitizenship.
| 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 323 The city of Neuchatel has also a strict alliance of fellowcitizenship with Berne. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 311 The ‘Fraternity’..aims to neutralize by fellow-citizenship the diversities..of nature. |