adjective
- Applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military.
- usage: "civil authorities"
- Not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others."even if he didn't like them he should have been civil- W. S. Maugham
- synonyms: polite
- Of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state.
- usage: "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government"
- Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals.
- usage: "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride"
- synonyms: civic
- Of divisions of time. ( legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life)
- usage: "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight"
- Of or in a condition of social order.
- usage: "civil peoples"
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