ALL meanings of civil
civ·il
C c - adjective civil of or relating to the citizen as an individual 3
- adjective civil of or occurring within the state or between citizens 3
- adjective civil polite or courteous 3
- adjective civil of or in accordance with Roman law 3
- adjective civil relating to the private rights of citizens 3
- adjective civil of a citizen or citizens 3
- adjective civil of a community of citizens, their government, or their interrelations 3
- adjective civil cultured; civilized 3
- adjective civil polite or courteous, esp. in a merely formal way 3
- adjective civil of citizens in procedures or matters that are not military or religious 3
- adjective civil designating legally recognized divisions of time 3
- adjective civil of or according to Roman civil law or modern civil law 3
- adjective civil relating to the private rights of individuals and to legal actions involving these 3
- adjective civil You use civil to describe events that happen within a country and that involve the different groups of people in it. 3
- adjective civil You use civil to describe people or things in a country that are not connected with its armed forces. 3
- adjective civil You use civil to describe things that are connected with the state rather than with a religion. 3
- adjective civil You use civil to describe the rights that people have within a society. 3
- adjective civil Someone who is civil is polite in a formal way, but not particularly friendly. 3
- adjective civil of the ordinary life of citizens as distinguished from military, legal, or ecclesiastical affairs 3
- noun civil Of or relating to ordinary citizens and their concerns, as distinct from military or ecclesiastical matters. 1
- adjective civil relating to society 1
- adjective civil courteous, not rude 1
- adjective civil law: not specifically criminal 1
- adjective civil of, relating to, or consisting of citizens: civil life; civil society. 1
- adjective civil of the commonwealth or state: civil affairs. 1
- adjective civil of citizens in their ordinary capacity, or of the ordinary life and affairs of citizens, as distinguished from military and ecclesiastical life and affairs. 1
- adjective civil of the citizen as an individual: civil liberty. 1
- adjective civil befitting a citizen: a civil duty. 1
- adjective civil of, or in a condition of, social order or organized government; civilized: civil peoples. 1
- adjective civil adhering to the norms of polite social intercourse; not deficient in common courtesy: After their disagreement, their relations were civil though not cordial. 1
- adjective civil marked by benevolence: He was a very civil sort, and we liked him immediately. 1
- adjective civil (of divisions of time) legally recognized in the ordinary affairs of life: the civil year. 1
- adjective civil of or relating to civil law. 1
- adjective civil (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion. 0
- adjective civil (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner. 0