Civilian

Definition: Civilian

Civilian

Adjective

1. Associated with or performed by civilians as contrasted with the military; "civilian clothing" "civilian life".

Noun

1. A nonmilitary citizen.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "civilian" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Laity

Layman, civilian; parishioner, catechumen; secularist.

Lawyer

Noun: lawyer, attorney, legal counsel; counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law; jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate; barrister, barrister at law; King's or Queen's counsel; K.C.; Q.C.; silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher; tubman, judge.

Crosswords: Civilian

Second, you're not a civilian, Colonel, you're in the army (The General's Daughter; writing credit: Christopher Bertolini)

I'm a civilian, not a trout -- you have no authority over me whatsoever (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley)

For me civilian life is nothing (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll)

But I'm a civilian. I'm more of a civilian than most civilians (Spartacus; writing credit: Howard Fast; Dalton Trumbo)

Well, if you'll excuse me saying so, sir, that would be, to my way of thinking, rather well, rather an odd way of looking at it. You see, if a Russian attack was in progress, we would certainly not be hearing civilian broadcast (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

If you pooch a civilian, (In France; performing artist: Frank Zappa)

Civilian Front (1940)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Civilian Content plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Civilian Use Helicopters in Denmark: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• Civilian Aircraft in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico, 1933-1942 (reference)

• Jim's Journey: A Wake Island Civilian POW's Story (reference)

• Secrets Of Street Survival - Israeli Style : Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone (reference)

• The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition (reference)

• Trapped With the Enemy: Four Years a Civilian P.O.W. in Japan (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Maine Civilian Labor Force Estimates (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• The Civilian (reference)

• Civilian (reference)

• Essential Glenn Miller: Best of Army & Civilian Bands (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lansing Simmons On triangulation party Served as commissioned officer then as civilian mathematician. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Freddie L. Jeffries As civilian photogrammetrist in C&GS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) encampment in Coon Vally, Wisconsin 8/19/34. Credit: Unknown.

Civilian Volunteers at Dedication PointBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Barry Rose.

Rogue River - Camp Rand - Co. 1650 Civilian Conservation Corp., aerial view. Credit: Unknown.

U.S. Army. Hospital Center, Vichy, France. : Officers, Enlisted Personnel, and Civilian Employees. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. : Officers and civilian personnel. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Commissioning ceremonies at the New London submarine base, Groton, Connecticut, 23 July 1943. The submarine's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Joseph F. Enright (second from right) is reading his orders. Civilian standing second from left is Mr. L.Y. Spear, President of the Electric Boat Company, which built Dace. Note Marine bugler at left. Photographer was probably Commander Edward Steichen, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 24 June 1948, two days before she was commissioned. Several civilian tugs are alongside. Credit: NAVY.

Civilian Conservation Camp changed to Republican conservation Camp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Damage in the form of levies, fines and other similar exactions imposed by Germany or her allies upon the civilian population. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Fifty five-percent of production is civilian, 45 percent is military and exports account for 58 percent. (references)

Once, the new airport is operational the existing Bangalore airport will be closed to civilian operations. (references)

Although French equipment dominates in the civilian market, just under 30 percent of the civilian fleet is of U.S. origin. (references)

Children

Eritrea

Persons with Disabilities The long war for independence and the conflict with Ethiopia left thousands of men and women with physical disabilities from injuries they received as guerrillas, soldiers, and civilian victims. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

Groups of military personnel sometimes use civilian ships to reach Jaffna. (references)

Venezuela

On February 2, the Supreme Court transferred the case to a civilian court. (references)

Economic History

Gambia, The

Type: Civilian. (references)

Luxembourg

The Luxembourg army is under civilian control. (references)

Suriname

Throughout 1982, pressure grew for a return to civilian rule. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

The LTTE also damaged the civilian airport. (references)

Ghana

A civilian also was shot by another civilian. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

At least seven other civilian bystanders were injured. (references)

Indigenous People

Colombia

However, some observers asserted that these special jurisdictions were subject to manipulation, and that punishments rendered by such community courts were often much more lenient than those imposed by regular civilian courts. (references)

Minorities

Philippines

Muslims continue to be underrepresented in senior civilian and military positions. (references)

Macedonia

Ethnic minorities constituted approximately 11 percent of Ministry of Defense civilian employees. (references)

Political Economy

Uzbekistan

There is effective civilian control over the military. (references)

Grenada

It is controlled by and responsive to civilian authorities. (references)

Guinea

There is no effective civilian control of the security forces. (references)

Political Rights

Fiji

In July 2000, a military-backed, civilian interim administration was installed. (references)

Honduras

Suffrage is universal; however, neither the clergy nor members of the military or civilian security forces are permitted to vote. (references)

Fiji

The Emergency Powers Act was amended by decree by the military-backed, civilian interim administration, which also invoked the amended act. (references)

Trade

Nicaragua

Military weapons may only be imported by the Armed Forces; import shipments of civilian weapons must be accompanied by a license issued by the Ministry of Government. (references)

Syria

U.S. exporters of dual use items (those with both civilian and military applications) or high-technology products should apply for export licenses which are considered on a case-by-case basis. (references)

Canada

Military export permits are normally denied to countries representing a strategic threat to Canada or its allies: countries involved in or under imminent threat of hostilities; countries under UN sanction; or countries whose governments have a persistent record of serious human rights violations, unless there is no reasonable risk that the goods might be used against the civilian population. (references)

Travel

Denmark

There are 12 civilian airports, plus the Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup), which is a major international airport and serves as the Scandinavian hub for SAS (Scandinavian Airline System). (references)

Sri Lanka

While no terrorist attacks against international or domestic aviation in Sri Lanka have been recorded since 1987, threats were directed at domestic air carriers flying between Colombo and Jaffna in 1998. A domestic civilian aircraft flying from Colombo to Jaffna crashed in September 1998 killing everyone on board. (references)

Worker Rights

Canada

Of the civilian labor force, approximately 29.5 percent is unionized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "civilian": chief civilian personnel officer ♦ civilian casualties ♦ civilian clothes ♦ civilian clothing ♦ civilian dress ♦ civilian garb ♦ civilian government ♦ civilian life ♦ civilian personnel ♦ civilian population ♦ civilian preparedness for war ♦ Civilian War Victims Organisation ♦ international civilian personnel with nato status ♦ local wage nato civilian employee ♦ nato international civilian post ♦ supernumerary nato civilian personnel ♦ temporary civilian personnel. Additional references.

Beginning with "civilian": civilian-clad, civilian-controlled, civilian-led, civilian-looking, civilian-military, civilian-operated, civilian-populated.

Ending with "civilian": non-civilian.

Albanian

civil (citizen, civil, plain clothes), nëpunës civil. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مواطن (citizen, inhabitant, national, resident), ‏مدني (citified, civic, civil, secular, urban, urbanized). (various references)

Bulgarian 

специалист по гражданско право, щатски, цивилно лице (citizen), цивилен (civil, non combatant), граждански (civil, unclerical). (various references)

Chinese 

文職 (non-military), 平民 (Populace). (various references)

Czech

civilní (civil, oppidan), civilista, civil. (various references)

Danish

civil (civil, non-military). (various references)

Dutch

civiel (civil, non-military). (various references)

Esperanto

civila (civil, non-military). (various references)

Faeroese

borgaraligur (civil, non-military). (various references)

Farsi 

غیرنظامی (Civil), شخص غیرنظامی . (various references)

Finnish

siviilihenkilö, siviili (in civoy street). (various references)

French

civil (civil). (various references)

German

zivilist, zivil (civil, civilian clothes, civvies, friendly, non-military, reasonable). (various references)

Greek 

ιδιώτησ (private citizen), πολιτικόσ (civil, political, politician, politico), πολίτησ (citizen). (various references)

Hebrew 

אזרחן, אזרחי (civic, civil), אזרחני, אזרח (citizen, denizen, native, subject). (various references)

Hungarian

polgári (bourgeois, civic, civil, non-military), civil (civies, civil, civvies, non-military), polgári egyén. (various references)

Italian

civile (civil, non-military, urbane). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

非戦闘員 (non-combatant), 文民 , 民間人 (non-government person), 民間　 (civil, folk, popular, private, unofficial), 民間 (civil, folk, popular, private, unofficial), 民生 (consumer, people's welfare or livelihood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひせんとういん (non-combatant), ぶんみん, みんせい (civil government, consumer, democracy, Democratic Youth League of Japan, people's welfare or livelihood), みんかんじん (non-government person), みんかん (civil, folk, popular, private, unofficial). (various references)

Korean 

민간인. (various references)

Manx

shivoilagh, shivoil (civil). (various references)

Pig Latin

iviliancay.(various references)

Portuguese

civil (citizen, civic, civil, gownsman, temporal). (various references)

Romanian

civil (citizen, civil). (various references)

Russian 

гражданский (civic, civil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

civilni (civil), civil, građanski (civic, civil). (various references)

Spanish

civil (civil, non-military), paisano (one from the same country). (various references)

Swedish

civil (civil). (various references)

Turkish

sivil (civil, secular, unmilitary). (various references)

Ukrainian

цивільне населення, цивільна особа (citizen, gownsman), цивільний (civic, civil, private, temporal), фахівець з цивільного права, штатський (civil). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thường dân (layman, vulgar), người thường (mediocrity). (various references)

civilien. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "civilian": civilianization, civilianizations, civilianize, civilianized, civilianizes, civilianizing, civilians. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Civilian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calvinian, Camilion, cecilian, civilan, civili, civilia, civiliam, Covilham, cuverian, cybilia, givetian, riviniana, Sevillana. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: incivil, vicinal.

-2 letters: clivia.

-3 letters: acini, anvil, cavil, cilia, civil, clavi, iliac, linac, nival, vinal, vinca, vinic.

-4 letters: anil, cain, clan, ilia, inia, laic, lain, nail, vail, vain, vial, vina.

-5 letters: ail, ain, ani, can, lac, lav, lin, nil, vac, van, via.

+1 letter: civilians.

+3 letters: civilianize, inviolacies.

+4 letters: civilianized, civilianizes, civilisation, civilization, conciliative, conviviality, indicatively, vilification.

+5 letters: civilianizing, civilisations, civilizations, provincialism, provincialist, provinciality, provincialize, vilifications, vivisectional, volcanicities, vulcanicities.