civil order

1. 1.

   the form of government of a social organization

   Synonymspolity

   Broaderorder

Questions about civil order

What does civil order mean?

civil order means "the form of government of a social organization".

What is another word for civil order?

Close synonyms include polity. 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 civil order a common word?

civil order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.