Definitions for Civic
ˈsɪv ɪkcivic

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 5 votes

1. civicadjective

   of or relating or belonging to a city

   "civic center"; "civic problems"

2. civil, civicadjective

   of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals

   "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 4 votes

1. civicadjective

   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.

2. Etymology: From civicus.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. civic

   The Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) is a Washington, D.C. based non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO). CIVIC was founded in 2003 by Marla Ruzicka as the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict. CIVIC works on behalf of civilians in conflict-zones, providing research and advocating to policymakers. CIVIC is a part of the Making Amends Campaign. CIVIC's mission statement reads: "Our mission is to work with armed actors and civilians in conflict to develop and implement solutions to prevent, mitigate and respond to civilian harm."

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.5 / 4 votes

1. Civicadjective

   relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs

2. Etymology: [L.civicus, fr. civis citizen. See City.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. civic

   Of or relating to citizens.

   The civil service were very efficient.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 25, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. CIVIC

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Civic is ranked #144141 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Civic surname appeared 115 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Civic.
   
   91.3% or 105 total occurrences were White.
   7.8% or 9 total occurrences were Black.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Civic' in Adjectives Frequency: #1033

How to pronounce Civic?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Civic in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Civic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Civic in a Sentence

1. Ghida Dagher:

   Yet even as we celebrate these gains, we know we still have a long way to go to achieve representational parity, if we want to create a truly inclusive and representative democracy, then we must invest in these communities to increase New American civic engagement and take a hard look at how our electoral and political systems still favor the white and wealthy.

2. Pastor Dent:

   In the black community, the church is the only thing we ever had to call our own, when we couldn't go to Civic Center or Union League, we always had the church. It is here where our children learn how to speak, how to stand before audiences.

3. Lori Fogarty:

   It's not for someone to put a sculpture in their backyard, we have stipulations that the project be available to the public. And we think there may be also projects that are brought forward by civic entities, or universities or libraries where it may not be sculpture, it may be benches or street lighting.

4. Robert Thompson:

   When he is going on all cylinders that show could be absolutely breath-taking and really informative and important to the civic conversation, people used to watch some of this goofy stuff that goes on in TV news and didn't think anything about it. But as you see the 100th montage where Stewart shows how all these cliches are repeated across the board, you don't look at TV news in the same way.

5. State John Kerry:

   I urge the Government of Egypt to work with civic groups to ease restrictions on association and expression and to take action to allow these and other human rights NGOs to operate freely.

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