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civic
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| civic pride
| civic responsibility
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective civic has 2 senses
- civic(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating or belonging to a city; "civic center"; "civic problems"
- civic(a = adj.pert) civil - of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride"
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]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
civic, adj.
1 of a city; municipal.
2 of or proper to citizens (civic virtues).
3 of citizenship, civil.
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, villageROGET THESAURUS
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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?.
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