CIVIC: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CIVIC?

Need another word that means the same as “civic”? Find 6 synonyms and 30 related words for “civic” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Civic” are: civil, municipal, urban, metropolitan, national, federal

Civic as an Adjective

Definitions of "Civic" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “civic” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Relating to the duties or activities of people in relation to their town, city, or local area.
• Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals.
• Of or relating or belonging to a city.
• Relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal.

Synonyms of "Civic" as an adjective (6 Words)

civil	Relating to civil law. They were comparatively civil to their daughter.
federal	Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War. A federal Europe.
metropolitan	Relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see. A metropolitan bishop.
municipal	Relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality. National and municipal elections.
national	Of or relating to nationality. The national highway system.
urban	Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area. The urban population.

Usage Examples of "Civic" as an adjective

• He was active in the civic life of Swindon.
• Civic duties.
• Civic pride.
• A meeting of civic and business leaders.

Associations of "Civic" (30 Words)

alderman	A co-opted member of an English county or borough council, next in status to the Mayor.
birmingham	The largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama.
capital	The upper part of a column that supports the entablature. Our capital concern was to avoid defeat.
center	Ice hockey the person who plays center on a hockey team. Her entire attention centered on her children.
central	At the point or in the area that is in the middle of something. You re in workaholic central here.
city	A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. The city council.
cityscape	Painting depicting a city or urban area. The dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty.
civilized	Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological. A civilized society.
community	A group of people living together and practising common ownership. Montreal s Italian community.
county	Relating to or characteristic of aristocratic people with an ancestral home in a particular county. A county grande dame.
depopulate	Reduce in population. The epidemic depopulated the countryside.
downtown	In or into a downtown area. The heart of Birmingham s downtown.
ghetto	Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live. The Warsaw ghetto.
hub	A center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve. The playground is the hub of parental supervision.
local	A local branch of an organization especially a trade union. Migration can regulate the local density of animals.
main	Capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence. The main doors were of solid glass.
major	Of an interval equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. C to E is a major third.
manchester	A city in northwestern England (30 miles to the east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England.
mayor	(in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) the head of a town, borough, or county council, elected by council members and generally having purely ceremonial duties.
metropolis	People living in a large densely populated municipality. By the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million.
metropolitan	Relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see. Metropolitan Spain.
municipal	Of or relating to the government of a municipality. International law only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law.
oxford	A university in England.
populous	Densely populated. The populous city of Shanghai.
prefecture	A prefect’s office or tenure. Enraged fans besieged the Prefecture of Police.
provincial	Local newspapers, as contrasted with national ones. Provincial elections.
slum	A house or building unfit for human habitation. Attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century.
sophisticate	Sophisticated. Books of casuistry which sophisticate the understanding and defile the heart.
suburban	Relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs. Suburban life.
urban	Denoting or relating to popular dance music associated with black performers. Urban clothing and street wear.