Civilian

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a belligerent group.
  • n. A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity.
  • n. A specialist in Roman or civil law.
  • adj. Of or relating to civilians or civil life; nonmilitary: civilian clothes; a civilian career.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a belligerent group.
  • n. A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity.
  • n. One skilled in civil law.
  • n. A student of civil law at a university or college.
  • adj. That which is not related to the military, police or other uniformed profession
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One skilled in the civil law.
  • n. A student of the civil law at a university or college.
  • n. One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who is skilled in the Roman or civil law; a professor or doctor of civil law.
  • n. A student of the civil law at a university.
  • n. One whose pursuits are those of civil life, not military or clerical; especially, a non-military inhabitant of a garrisoned town.
  • n. One who, despising the righteousness of Christ, did yet follow after a certain civil righteousness, a justitia civilis of his own.
  • n. A covenanted civil servant in British India.
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a civilian.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military
  • n. a nonmilitary citizen
  • Equivalent
    civil    noncombatant   
    Hypernym
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    citizen   
    Synonym
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    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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