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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning a country with a |
| Synonyms: | civil, communal, countrywide, domestic, ethnic, federal, general, government civic, governmental, home, imperial, inland, internal, interstate, nationwide, native, politic, political, public, royal, social, societal, sovereign, state, sweeping, vernacular, widespread |
| Antonyms: | local |
| Main Entry: | civic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | community |
| Synonyms: | borough, civil, communal, local, metropolitan, municipal, national, public, urban |
| Main Entry: | civil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civic, community |
| Synonyms: | civilian, domestic, governmental, home, interior, local, municipal, national, political, public |
| Main Entry: | denizen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resident |
| Synonyms: | citizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, inhabiter, liver, national, native, occupant, resider, subject |
| Notes: | a denizen is someone who inhabits a particular place while a citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state, city, town, or other political community |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant |
| Main Entry: | domestic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not foreign |
| Synonyms: | handcrafted, home-grown, homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, intestine, intramural, municipal, national, native |
| Notes: | a domestic animal is a pet; a domesticated animal is a formerly wild animal bred for human use |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreign |
| Main Entry: | ethnic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | racial, cultural |
| Synonyms: | indigenous, national, native, traditional, tribal |
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic |
| Synonyms: | at ease, at rest, central, down home, familiar, family, homely, homey, household, in one's element, in the bosom, inland, internal, local, national, native |
| Notes: | hone means to sharpen, while home (in) means to seek out a target; you can hone a skill but you home in on something a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included |
| Antonyms: | business, commercial |
| Main Entry: | internal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | within |
| Synonyms: | centralized, circumscribed, civic, constitutional, domestic, enclosed, gut, home, in-house, indigenous, inherent, innate, inner, innermore, inside, interior, intestine, intimate, intramural, intrinsic, inward, municipal, national, native, private, subjective, visceral, viscerous |
| Antonyms: | external, outer |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic, home |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, belonging, endemic, from, homegrown, homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, local, municipal, national, original, primary, primeval, primitive, regional, related, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | foreign, outside |
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