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Is cit a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cit is a Scrabble US word. The word cit is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

C3I1T1

Is cit a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cit is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

C3I1T1

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3 letters words from 'cit'

CIT 5TIC 5

2 letters words from 'cit'

IT 2TI 2

All 3 letters words made out of cit

cit ict cti tci itc tic

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Definitions and meaning of cit

cit

Etymology

Shortened from citizen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

cit (plural cits)

  1. (derogatory, now rare) A citizen; a townsman, city dweller.
    • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
      […] 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 soon as those saucy cits shall begin to imitate those in being.
    • 1856, Herman Melville, The Piazza
      Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      “If, when that war was declared, every one had been sure that not only should we fail to conquer the Transvaal, but that IT would conquer US […] how would the cits have felt then?”

Derived terms

  • citess, cittess

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

  • CTI, ICT, TCI, TIC, tic

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɪt]

Noun

cit m

  1. feeling
  2. emotion
    Synonym: emoce

Declension

Derived terms

  • bezcitný m
  • citový

Related terms

  • cítit

Further reading

  • cit in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • cit in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Gallo

Etymology

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Noun

cit m (plural cits)

  1. cider

Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃit/, /t͡ɕit/

Adjective

cit

  1. little, small

References

  • Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid‎[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Verb

cit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of ciō

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʲid/

Etymology

Univerbation of cía (“though”) +‎ bat (“be”, 3rd person plural present subjunctive)

Verb

cit

  1. though… (they) are (subjunctive)
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 207b11

Mutation

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

cit

  1. root of cintayati

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (archaic) a contemptuous term for one who is not a gentleman.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)