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How to spell citizenship

Citizenship is spelled C-I-T-I-Z-E-N-S-H-I-P.

hear itcit·i·zen·ship/'sɪtɪzən,ʃɪp/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: The behavior of a responsible and helpful member of a community.

In a sentence: In school, we learn about good citizenship and being helpful to others.

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Same family: citizen, citizens, citizenry, civic, civil. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Citizenship comes from the word citizen, which traces back to the Latin word *civis*, meaning ‘townsman’ or ‘one who lives in a city.’ The suffix -ship was added in English to show the state or quality of being a citizen.

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