Meaning

2 senses

  1. Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.

    Thousands of people came to the Civic Center to show off their civic pride.

    bürgerlich

    гражда́нскийgraždánskij, городскойgorodskoj

    of or relating or belonging to a city

  2. Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

    civic duty

    bürgerlich

    гражда́нскийgraždánskij

    громадя́нськийhromadjánsʹkyj

Examples

17 sentences

  1. It's your civic duty to vote.

    deEs ist deine Bürgerpflicht zu wählen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. I'm just doing my civic duty.

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  3. Tom is a very civic-minded person.

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  4. This is your civic duty.

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  5. I believe it to be my civic duty.

    ruЯ считаю это своим гражданским долгом. — marafon

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
Of or relating to the citizen:
Русский
By meaning 1
Having to do with a city or the people who live there:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Having to do with a city or the people who live there:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin cīvicus (“pertaining to a city or citizens”).

Borrowed from Latin cīvicus (“pertaining to a city or citizens”).

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Forms

more civic, most civic
Comparativemore civic Lesson
Superlativemost civic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals:civil

Word family

23 related words
RelatedcivilB1citycitizen
Derivedanticiviccivicallycivic centrecivic crowncivic dutycivic garlandcivic hackercivicismcivicistcivicizecivic-mindedcivic nationalismcivic nationalistcivicscivic sensecivic societycivnatextracivicintercivicuncivic

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
citruscityA1civetcivilB1civiliancivilisationB1

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