MEANING
Relating to a town or city as a community and to its public life.
Use it for
Public ceremonies; citizen participation; shared institutionsMake a place important because a community conducts its public life there.
Words that belong together
- civic center
- civic space
- civic life
On the page
The plaza became a civic space where residents debated local plans.
The new civic center brought council services together.
Evening meetings kept the school hall at the heart of civic life.
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Word forms
- Base
- civic
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Foregrounds communal institutions and citizenship rather than private domestic life. Civic is not identical to civil in all senses. Normally non-gradable as a relationship adjective.
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