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Definition: CIT |
CITNoun1. A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. |
Date "CIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Note: Cit \Cit\, noun. [Contr. from citizen.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | CIT. A citizen of London. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Space | California Institute of Technology, Caltech. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CIT | Danish | Det raadgivende Udvalg for Innovation og Teknologioverfoersel | European Union |
CIT | Dutch | Raadgevend Comite voor innovatie en overdracht van technologie | European Union |
CIT | English | Corinthian Investment Trust | N/A |
CIT | French | Conseil international des tanneurs | Industry, International Organizations |
CIT | German | Charakterologischer Intelligenztest | Medicine |
CIT | Greek | Συμβουλευτική Eπιτροπή για την Eισαγωγή Nέων Mεθόδων και για τη Mεταφορά Tεχνολογίας | European Union |
CIT | Italian | Comitato consultivo per l'innovazione e per il trasferimento di tecnologie | European Union |
CIT | Portuguese | Convénio Internacional do Trigo | N/A |
CIT | Spanish | Convenio Internacional del Trigo | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inhabitant | Noun: inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller, indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter; compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CIT |
| English words defined with "CIT": Citicism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CIT": Dandin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CIT": Citicism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CIT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (emotion, feeling, touch), Portuguese (Advisory Committee for Innovation and Technology Transfer). |
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| "CIT" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CIT" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Unclassified Items | 100% | 75 | 38,535 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | CIT Group Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CIT": North Kansas Cit ♦ Westmoreland Cit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CIT": Cit-alcatel, cit-xe. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 州理工学院. (various references) | |
Danish | Regioner og Byer for Europa (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, RECITE). (various references) | |
Dutch | Regio's en steden voor Europa (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, RECITE). (various references) | |
French | Régions et villes d'Europe (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, Regions and cities for Europe). (various references) | |
German | Zitat (citation, quotation, quote). (various references) | |
Greek | εριφέρειες και πόλεις για την Ευρώπη (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, RECITE). (various references) | |
Italian | citazione (adduction, citation, complaint, extract, mention, monition, quotation, quote, subpoena, summons). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Regiões e Cidades para a Europa (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, RECITE). (various references) | |
Spanish | Regiones y Ciudades por Europa (Re gions and cit ies for Europe, RECITE). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CIT": citable, citadel, citadels, citation, citational, citations, citator, citators, citatory, cite, citeable, cited, citer, citers, cites, cithara, citharas, cither, cithern, citherns, cithers, cithren, cithrens, citied, cities, citification, citifications, citified, citifies, citify, citifying, citing, citizen, citizeness, citizenesses, citizenly, citizenries, citizenry, citizens, citizenship, citizenships, citola, citolas, citole, citoles, citral, citrals, citrate, citrated, citrates, citreous. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CIT": complicit, deficit, elicit, explicit, illicit, implicit, inexplicit, licit, overexplicit, solicit, tacit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CIT": adscititious, aeroelasticities, aeroelasticity, allergenicities, allergenicity, analcite, analcites, analyticities, analyticity, anelasticities, anelasticity, anthracite, anthracites, anthracitic, anthropocentricities, anthropocentricity, anticity, antigenicities, antigenicity, aperiodicities, aperiodicity, apostolicities, apostolicity, appendicitis, appendicitises, aromaticities, aromaticity, ascites, ascitic, atrocities, atrocity, audacities, audacity, authenticities, authenticity, automaticities, automaticity, bacitracin, bacitracins, basicities, basicity, bioelectricities, bioelectricity, boracite, boracites, caducities, caducity, calcite, calcites, calcitic, calcitonin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "it": grit, Nit, Rit, Scrit, twit, Whit. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-t" | |
-1 letter: it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-t" | |
+1 letter: chit, cist, cite, city, clit, etic, itch, otic, tick, tics. | |
+2 letters: actin, aitch, antic, attic, bitch, cacti, cesti, chits, cists, cited, citer, cites, civet, clift, clipt, clits, coati, cubit, culti, cutie, cutin, cutis, dicot, dicta, dicty, ditch, edict, ethic, evict, fitch, hitch, ictic, ictus, itchy, licht, licit, lotic, lytic, ontic, optic, picot, pitch, recti, stich, stick, stoic, tacit, telic, thick, tical, ticks, tinct, tonic, topic, toric, toxic, triac, trice, trick, tunic, twice, typic, vatic, witch. | |
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