civil officer

Questions about civil officer

What is another word for civil officer?

It depends which civil officer you mean. In the sense “a person who exercises authority over civilian affairs”, the synonyms are civil authority. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of civil officer?

WordNet records no antonym for civil officer. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for civil officer come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of civil officer

• Full entry for civil officerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for civil officerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.