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cit¹

  • /sɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

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Clipping of citizen.

noun cits · cit.

  1. archaic, derogatory 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 so

cit²

  • /sɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

Clipping of citation.

noun cits · cit.

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of citation

CIT³

noun CITs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of collagen induction therapy
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of counselor-in-training

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MLA

"cit." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cit. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

cit. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cit

Chicago

"cit." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cit.

BibTeX
@misc{cit_2026,
  title = {cit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}