protocitizen

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

proto- +‎ citizen

Noun[edit]

protocitizen (plural protocitizens)

  1. A person whose social status is an early approximation to the later idea of a citizen.
    • 2016, Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011, page 66:
      […] the transformation of Jewish serfs into permanent cultivators of national land as protocitizens.
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