Usually means: Polite, courteous, relating to citizens.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word civil:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. civil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. civil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. civil: Collins English Dictionary
  5. civil: Vocabulary.com
  6. Civil, civil: Wordnik
  7. civil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Civil, civil: Wiktionary
  9. civil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. civil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. civil: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. civil: Dictionary.com
  13. civil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. civil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Civil (disambiguation), Civil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Civil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. civil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. civil: Rhymezone
  19. civil, civil, civil(e), civil(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. civil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. civil: Free Dictionary
  22. civil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. civil: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. civil: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. civil: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. civil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. civil: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. civil: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CiViL: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See civils as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
adjective:  (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.
adjective:  (archaic) In a peaceful and well-ordered state.
adjective:  (law) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.
adjective:  Secular.
noun:  A surname.

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