civic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: civ=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

civic, a. [L.civicus, fr. civis citizen. See City.].

 Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.  [1913 Webster]

Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

civic, adj.
1 of a city; municipal.
2 of or proper to citizens (civic virtues).
3 of citizenship, civil.

Idiom

civic centre Brit. the area where municipal offices and other public buildings are situated; the buildings themselves.

Derivative

civically adv.

Etymology

F civique or L civicus f. civis citizen

THESAURUS

civic

absolute, aristocratic, authoritarian, autocratic, autonomous, bureaucratic, burghal, chauvinist, citified, city, civil, common, communal, constitutional, cosmopolitan, democratic, despotic, dictatorial, diplomatic, downtown, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic, flag-waving, general, geopolitical, governmental, gubernatorial, heteronomous, international, interurban, jingoist, matriarchal, matriarchic, metropolitan, midtown, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, monocratic, municipal, national, nationalistic, official, oligarchal, oligarchic, oppidan, overpatriotic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal, patriarchic, patriotic, pluralistic, politic, political, politico-commercial, politico-diplomatic, politico-economic, politico-geographical, politico-judicial, politico-military, politico-moral, politico-religious, politico-scientific, politico-social, politico-theological, public, public-spirited, republican, self-governing, social, societal, state, statesmanlike, suburban, suffragist, superpatriotic, supranational, theocratic, totalitarian, town, ultranationalist, uptown, urban, village

ROGET THESAURUS

civic

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.