Citizens & Citizenry

[Guest]

Hi all

I got confused with these two words
Could u give me the difference between them?

Thanks inadvance
new guest

[Alan]

Hi,

Citizens are the individual members of a state or city and citizenry is the collectecive noun for all the citizens. This sort of construction is found in many other pairs of words such as: constables -constabulary/clerics - clergy/yeomans -yeomanry.

Alan
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