civic

1. 1.

   of or relating or belonging to a city

   “civic center”

   “civic problems”
2. 2.

   of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals

   “civil rights”

   “civil liberty”

   “civic duties”

   “civic pride”

   Synonymscivil

Other forms of civic

comparative

civicer·

superlative

civicest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about civic

What does civic mean?

civic means "of or relating or belonging to a city". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in civic?

civic has 2 syllables: civ-ic. The stress falls on "civ". In IPA it is /ˈsɪvɪk/.

What is another word for civic?

Close synonyms include civil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is civic a common word?

civic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.