Definitions for civil

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civil civ·il

Spelling: [siv-uh l]

IPA: /ˈsɪv əl/

Civil is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in civil (ciilv).

Definitions for civil

adjective

1. of, relating to, or consisting of citizens:
2. of the commonwealth or state:
3. of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs.
4. of the citizen as an individual:
5. befitting a citizen:
6. of, or in a condition of, social order or organized government; civilized:
7. adhering to the norms of polite social intercourse; not deficient in common courtesy:
8. marked by benevolence:
9. (of divisions of time) legally recognized in the ordinary affairs of life:
10. of or relating to civil law.

Origin of civil

1350-1400; Middle English Latin cīvīlis, equivalent to cīv(is) citizen + -īlis -il

Examples for civil

In the following century came the three sieges of the civil War.

It might be thought that I would have a right to civil answers here.

In 1875 he was created an honorary member of the Institution of civil Engineers.

Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the civil Rights drama Selma.

“I can walk,” he said, with a little friendly laugh to the civil driver.

An attack on journalists anywhere is an attack on civil society everywhere.

The scheme has been condemned by civil liberties groups and queried by the National Association of Head Teachers.

Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it.

They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).

On Friday, the story had looked like it might blow over as Buckingham Palace sought to dismiss it as a “civil case.”