English words starting with cit

Meanings of Cit:

adverb

Used by writers to avoid repeating the details of a book or article that has already been referred to, when all the details other than the page number are the same

Usage examples:

Johnson (op. cit., page 53) calls this phenomenon "the principle of minimal effort".

Meanings of Citadel:

noun

A fortress, typically one on high ground above a city.

Usage examples:

The garrison withdrew into the citadel

Meanings of Citadels:

noun

A fortress, typically one on high ground above a city.

Usage examples:

The garrison withdrew into the citadel

Meanings of Citation:

noun

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

Usage examples:

The majority of the citations are to work published during the past twenty years

Meanings of Citational:

adjective

Of or relating to citation or citations.

Meanings of Citations:

noun

A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.

Usage examples:

The majority of the citations are to work published during the past twenty years

Meanings of Citator:

noun

A person who quotes, refers to, or mentions something.

Meanings of Citators:

noun

A person who quotes, refers to, or mentions something.

Meanings of Citatory:

adjective

Especially of a document: having the function of citing or summoning someone; relating to or concerned with this action. especially in "letters citatory" (also "citatory letters"). now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Cite:

verb

Refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.

Usage examples:

Authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend to be cited

noun

A citation.

Usage examples:

He just checked the cites and published the opinions unchanged.

Meanings of Cited:

verb

Refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.

Usage examples:

Authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend to be cited

noun

A citation.

Usage examples:

He just checked the cites and published the opinions unchanged.

Meanings of Citee:

noun

A person who is cited.

Meanings of Citer:

noun

A person who quotes, refers to, or mentions something.

Meanings of Citers:

noun

A person who quotes, refers to, or mentions something.

Meanings of Cites:

abbreviation

Convention on international trade in endangered species.

noun

Refer to (a passage, book, or author) as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement, especially in a scholarly work.

Usage examples:

Authors who are highly regarded by their peers tend to be cited

Meanings of Citess:

noun

Occasionally used in preference to citizeness as a title or form of address for a woman. compare "citizen" citizeness now historical and rare.

Meanings of Cithara:

noun

An ancient greek and roman stringed musical instrument similar to the lyre.

Usage examples:

He sang and performed on the cithara but also encouraged members of the upper classes to take lesso…

Meanings of Citharas:

noun

An ancient greek and roman stringed musical instrument similar to the lyre.

Usage examples:

He sang and performed on the cithara but also encouraged members of the upper classes to take lesso…

Meanings of Citharist:

noun

Originally: †a harper (obsolete). later: a person who plays the cithara.

Meanings of Citharoedic:

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a cithara player.

Meanings of Cither:

noun

Any of various plucked stringed instruments similar in form to, or believed to have derived from, the cithara; (in later use) especially a zither.

Meanings of Cithern:

noun

Variant spelling of cittern.

Meanings of Citherns:

noun

A stringed instrument similar to a lute, with a flattened back and wire strings, used in 16th- and 17th-century europe.

Usage examples:

Viols, rebecs, citterns, lutes, and wooden flutes help.

Meanings of Cithers:

noun

Any of various plucked stringed instruments similar in form to, or believed to have derived from, the cithara; (in later use) especially a zither.

Meanings of Cities:

noun

A large town.

Usage examples:

One of italy's most beautiful cities