citizenship

English

Etymology

From citizen +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪtɪzənʃɪp/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

citizenship (countable and uncountable, plural citizenships)

1. The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
   • 2019 October 7, Kate Springer, “Passports for purchase: Open citizenship doors around the world”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Katz himself is one of them. Originally an American citizen, the entrepreneur acquired citizenships in Israel and Canada where he lived for long periods. Later, he obtained a St. Kitts and Nevis citizenship through a real estate investment.

   • 2025 February 10, Jon Schoenheider, “Federal judge in New Hampshire blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for kids of people in US illegally”, in WMUR-TV‎^[2]:

     Both sides cited the case of United States vs. Wong Kim Ark from 1898, which defines elements of citizenship for immigrants.

Synonyms

• (state of being a citizen in all senses): citizenhood
• (status of membership in an incorporated city): freedom of the city, freemanship

Derived terms

• anticitizenship
• biocitizenship
• birthright citizenship
• citizenshipless
• cybercitizenship
• dual citizenship
• intercitizenship
• market citizenship
• multicitizenship
• multiple citizenship
• noncitizenship
• protocitizenship

Related terms

• citizen

Translations

state of being a citizen

• Afrikaans: burgerskap
• Albanian: shtetësi (sq) f
• Arabic: مُوَاطِنِيَّة f (muwāṭiniyya)
• Armenian: քաղաքացիություն (hy) (kʻaġakʻacʻiutʻyun)
• Assamese: নাগৰিকত্ব (nagrikotto)
• Asturian: ciudadanía f
• Azerbaijani: vətəndaşlıq
• Bashkir: гражданлыҡ (grajdanlıq)
• Belarusian: грамадзя́нства n (hramadzjánstva)
• Bengali: নাগরিকতা (bn) (nagrikota)
• Bikol Central: pagkahimanwa
• Bulgarian: гра́жданство n (gráždanstvo), по́данство (bg) n (pódanstvo)
• Burmese: နိုင်ငံသားအဖြစ် (nuingngamsa:a.hprac)
• Catalan: ciutadania (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公民權 / 公民权 (gung¹ man⁴ kyun⁴), 國籍 / 国籍 (gwok³ zik⁶)

  Mandarin: 公民權 / 公民权 (zh) (gōngmínquán), 國籍 / 国籍 (zh) (guójí)

• Crimean Tatar: grajdanlıq
• Czech: občanství (cs) n
• Danish: borgerskab n, statsborgerskab (da) n
• Dutch: burgerschap (nl) n
• Erzya: ошломаньксчи (ošlomańksči)
• Estonian: kodakondsus
• Faroese: ríkisborgararættur m
• Finnish: kansalaisuus (fi)
• French: citoyenneté (fr) f, nationalité (fr) f
• Galician: cidadanía (gl) f
• Georgian: მოქალაქეობა (mokalakeoba)
• German: Staatsbürgerschaft (de) f, Staatsangehörigkeit (de) f, Bürgerschaft (de) f
• Greek: υπηκοότητα (el) f (ypikoótita)

  Ancient: πολῑτείᾱ f (polīteíā)

• Gujarati: નાગરિકતા (nāgriktā)
• Hebrew: אֶזְרָחוּת (he) f (ezrakhút)
• Hindi: नागरिकता (hi) f (nāgriktā)
• Hungarian: állampolgárság (hu)
• Icelandic: ríkisborgararéttur (is) m, ríkisfang (is) n
• Indonesian: kependudukan, kewarganegaraan (id)
• Irish: saoránacht f, cathróireacht f
• Italian: cittadinanza (it) f, senso civico (it)
• Japanese: 市民権 (ja) (しみんけん, shiminken), 公民権 (ja) (こうみんけん, kōminken), 国籍 (ja) (こくせき, kokuseki)
• Kannada: ಪೌರತ್ವ (kn) (pauratva)
• Kazakh: азаматтық (kk) (azamattyq)
• Khmer: សញ្ជាតិ (km) (sañciət)
• Korean: 시민권(市民權) (ko) (simin'gwon), 국적(國籍) (ko) (gukjeok), 공민권(公民權) (gongmin'gwon)
• Kyrgyz: граждандык (ky) (grajdandık), жарандык (ky) (jarandık), атуулдук (atuulduk)
• Lao: ສັນຊາດ (lo) (san sāt)
• Latin: cīvitās (la) f
• Latvian: pilsonība f
• Lithuanian: pilietybė f
• Livvi: kanzalližus
• Macedonian: државјанство n (državjanstvo), граѓанство n (graǵanstvo)
• Malay: kewarganegaraan (ms), kerakyatan (ms)
• Malayalam: പൗരത്വം (ml) (pauratvaṁ)
• Manx: seyraanaght m
• Maori: kiriraraunga, raraunga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: иргэншил (mn) (irgenšil), харъяат (xarʺjaat)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: borgerskap n, statsborgerskap (no) n

• Occitan: ciutadanetat f
• Old English: burgræden f
• Pashto: تابعيت (ps) m (tābe'yat)
• Persian: شَهروَندان (fa) (šahrvandân), شَهروَندی (šahrvandi), تابِعیَّت (fa) (tâbe'iyyat)
• Polish: obywatelstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: cidadania (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ f (nāgrikatā)
• Romanian: cetățenie (ro) f
• Russian: гражда́нство (ru) n (graždánstvo), по́дданство (ru) n (póddanstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: saoranachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: државља́нство n, др̀жавља̄нство n

  Roman: državljánstvo (sh) n, dr̀žavljānstvo (sh) n

• Sinhalese: පුරවැසි බව (purawæsi bawa)
• Slovak: občianstvo n
• Slovene: državljanstvo n
• Spanish: ciudadanía (es) f
• Swahili: uraia (sw)
• Swedish: medborgarskap (sv) n
• Tajik: табаият (tabayiyat), гражданият (graždaniyat), шаҳрвандон (tg) (šahrvandon), шаҳрвандӣ (tg) (šahrvandi)
• Tamil: குடியுரிமை (ta) (kuṭiyurimai)
• Tatar: ватандашлык (watandaşlıq)
• Telugu: పౌరసత్వం (te) (paurasatvaṁ)
• Thai: สัญชาติ (th) (sǎn-châat)
• Turkish: vatandaşlık (tr), yurttaşlık (tr)
• Turkmen: raýatlyk
• Ukrainian: громадя́нство n (hromadjánstvo)
• Urdu: شَہْرِیَّت f (śahriyyat)
• Uyghur: پۇقرالىق (puqraliq)
• Uzbek: tabaalik (uz), grajdanlik (uz), fuqarolik (uz)
• Vietnamese: quyền công dân (vi), quốc tịch (vi)
• Welsh: dinasyddiaeth (cy) f
• Yiddish: בירגערשאַפֿט f (birgershaft)