protocitizen
English
Etymology
proto- + citizen
Noun
protocitizen (plural protocitizens)
- A person whose social status is an early approximation to the later idea of a citizen.
- 2016, Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011 (page 66)
- […] the transformation of Jewish serfs into permanent cultivators of national land as protocitizens.
- 2016, Yael Allweil, Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011 (page 66)