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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
civic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a civic duty (=done because you live in a place)
▪ It is your civic duty to vote.
a civic reception (=one given by the authorities of a city)
▪ The plaque was unveiled during a civic reception given at Glasgow City Chambers.
civic centre
civic pride (=pride in your town or city)
▪ The museum is a vital source of civic pride.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
▪ No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings.
▪ They were built for and of the town and were surrounded, up to their walls, by houses and civic buildings.
▪ Stations come in all sizes from cottage-size right through to major civic buildings.
▪ About £16m is needed to tackle repairs and maintenance on many civic buildings constructed in the 1960s and 70s.
centre
▪ Tickets are £3.50 and available from the civic centre, the Mill House Leisure Centre or the door.
▪ The grand Victorian and Edwardian architecture of this period still gives the civic centre of Birmingham its character.
▪ Tickets can be bought on board or from the civic centre.
▪ They raided the main city bakery to dispense scones and cakes to workers at the civic centre.
▪ Unfortunately, it forgot to plan for the needed new council chamber within that civic centre.
▪ The winners of the Sid Chaplin short story competition named after the Shildon-born writer were announced at the town's civic centre.
▪ The station was consciously designed to be a civic centre with a wide range of rooms including a theatre.
▪ Applicants who must be aged 1824, should contact Haylli Bellerby at the civic centre.
culture
▪ Some fear that it will lead to a breakdown of the civic culture that Almond and Verba so admired in Britain.
▪ More important, in the civic culture participant political orientations combine with and do not replace subject and parochial political orientations.
▪ In the 1970s and early 1980s, a number of observers began to chart a decline in the civic culture.
▪ It is as an answer to this ambivalence that the civic culture recommends itself.
▪ Thus, substantive comparison of these countries and the generalizations about civic culture must be treated with suspicion.
▪ For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
▪ The civic culture may be weakened but it has not collapsed.
▪ The civic culture is present in the form of aspiration, and the democratic infrastructure is still far from being attained.
dignitary
▪ The mayor and civic dignitaries met us in a blaze of colour at Bow Bridge with the usual greetings and pleasantries.
duty
▪ Well, that's my civic duty done.
▪ You have to work, perform your civic duty.
▪ If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced.
▪ A piece of impudence on my part, really, but I have a strong sense of civic duty.
▪ And the couple are now taking an early-break break from their civic duties to patch up their differences.
engagement
▪ His work on social capital and civic engagement has been heavily drawn upon by Francis Fukuyama and others.
▪ Being a first-class citizen is about that kind of civic engagement.
▪ First, the postwar boom in college enrollments raised levels of civic engagement, offsetting the generational trends.
▪ Evidence for the decline of social capital and civic engagement comes from a number of independent sources.
▪ Indeed, the overall declines in civic engagement are somewhat greater among housewives than among employed women.
▪ Even more striking is the evidence that among workers, longer hours are linked to more civic engagement.
▪ So hard work does not prevent civic engagement.
group
▪ Pressure from civic groups convinced him that the redrafting was necessary.
▪ Most of these civic groups are Conservative-dominated.
institution
▪ It is a social and religious organization, running an array of civic institutions.
leader
▪ In addition, Grills said, no civic leaders were asked about their faith.
▪ Delighted civic leaders said the decision would boost the city's bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games.
▪ Some cherish hopes of being business and civic leaders themselves.
▪ But many Nashville residents are unconvinced, leaving government and civic leaders worried that the once-done Oilers deal actually could collapse.
▪ He joined civic leaders and medical experts from Mid Glamorgan council, who are helping handicapped children from the Gulf kingdom.
▪ But he had let it become so obvious that the civic leaders were complaining.
life
▪ Yet, increasingly, vicarious experience via film, video and music is a substitute for civic life and community.
▪ He contributed to the political and civic life of the area in a variety of ways.
▪ Life, civic life included, is not as simple as the purveying of fashionable ideas suggests.
▪ They seek, correctly, to revitalize our atrophied sense of civic life but we need to go much further.
pride
▪ This was well illustrated by station-building and civic pride outside the capital.
▪ There was no sense of responsibility, civic pride, or love of work.
▪ Meredith made a speech about the civic pride the city took in its repertory company, and the importance of the drama.
▪ It would be an opportunity to foster civic pride and to identify talented youngsters.
reception
▪ At a civic reception that evening Chapman announced that the club would not be satisfied until it had won the League Championship.
▪ Today, her achievement was recognised with a civic reception.
▪ A council spokesman said this occurred when the last civic reception was held for the club and caused great concern.
responsibility
▪ Financial responsibility for giving support would be delegated to a local level in order to rekindle civic responsibility.
▪ In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.
▪ Suffice that this was a textbook case of civic responsibility.
society
▪ Often there are other organisations, such as the Landmark Trust or civic societies, capable of coming to the rescue.
▪ A civic society should also be a free one.
virtue
▪ If we're selling it, we'd better point out that it's a starting-point for civic virtue.
▪ Is the kind of thinking required for scientific experimentation the same kind required for civic virtue?
▪ Finally, the citizen must, if true to his quality, be possessed of some civic virtue.
▪ The problem here is how can social cohesion and civic virtue be promoted?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Civic leaders cannot agree on what is best for the city.
▪ An important civic function is taking place in the city hall this evening.
▪ Harlow Council has always been generous with civic funding for music and the arts.
▪ It is your civic duty to act as a juror.
▪ John Golden was an important civic and business leader.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Employers are committed to the civic challenge of moving people from welfare to work.
▪ For the civic culture is not a modern culture, but one that combines modernity with tradition.
▪ Is civic assertiveness now so strong that citizens would actually be prepared to break laws which they considered to be unjust?
▪ It is a social and religious organization, running an array of civic institutions.
▪ No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings.
▪ Some fear that it will lead to a breakdown of the civic culture that Almond and Verba so admired in Britain.
▪ They will be divided into teams and assigned civic roles.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Civic

Civic \Civ"ic\, a. [L.civicus, fr. civis citizen. See City.] Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

Civic crown (Rom. Antiq.), a crown or garland of oak leaves and acorns, bestowed on a soldier who had saved the life of a citizen in battle.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
civic

1540s, originally mostly in civic crown (Latin corona civica), a chaplet of oak leaves awarded to one who saved the life of a fellow citizen in battle, from Latin civicus "of a citizen," adjectival derivation of civis "townsman" (see city). Sense of "having to do with citizens" is from 1790.

Wiktionary
civic

a. 1 Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil. 2 Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

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WordNet
civic

  1. adj. of or relating or belonging to a city; "civic center"; "civic problems"

  2. of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil]

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Wikipedia
Civic

Civic is something being related to a city or municipality. It also can refer to multiple other things:

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Usage examples of "civic".

It is against reason, utterly to deny Likeness by these while admitting it by the greater: tradition at least recognizes certain men of the civic excellence as divine, and we must believe that these too had in some sort attained Likeness: on both levels there is virtue for us, though not the same virtue.

San Francisco, Conrad Aiken, stood looking out over yet another tent city, this one in the Civic Center Park, directly below where he stood partially hidden behind the flags of the United States and of California on the ceremonial balcony area over the magnificently carved double-doorways of City Hall.

Likeness by these while admitting it by the greater: tradition at least recognizes certain men of the civic excellence as divine, and we must believe that these too had in some sort attained Likeness: on both levels there is virtue for us, though not the same virtue.

In the shock from this he was sensible that he had not seen any woman-and-dog teams for some time, and he wondered by what civic or ethnic influences their distribution was so controlled that they should have abounded in Hamburg, Leipsic, and Carlsbad, and wholly ceased in Nuremberg, Ansbach, and Wurzburg, to reappear again in Weimar, though they seemed as characteristic of all Germany as the ugly denkmals to her victories over France.

Leah at a civic cer- emony, had told Leah much the same thing, and so she still followed her own religion.

Marco Aurelio Urbino, the father of Juvenal, was a civic hero during that dreadful time, as well as its most distinguished victim.

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In the foreground to one side of the image, watching from inside the Barusi Civic Center, stood several more Ganymeans: angular, gray-hued, eight-foot-tall figures, with lengthened, narrowish heads compared to the vaulted human cranium, and protruding lower faces with skulls elongated behind.

Barusi Civic Center, stood several more Ganymeans: angular, gray-hued, eight-foot-tall figures, with lengthened, narrowish heads compared to the vaulted human cranium, and protruding lower faces with skulls elongated behind.

By contrast, the Pickax City Hall had always been a civic embarrassment: a two-story gray brick building with a flat roof, small naked windows, and an unimpressive entrance door.

Russian civic radicalism, young Dostoevsky was arrested along with other members of a St.

Ford Taurus rental up to her aging blue Honda Civic with the Nurses Make It Better sticker on its rusting bumper.

We swung around the Civic Center and were sitting in traffic at Pershing Square, me now four cars behind and counting the homeless bag ladies around the Square, when I spotted the guy in the Grateful Dead tee shirt from the yakitori grill.

She was also tutored at the appropriate age in astrography, galactic history, various branches of the physical sciences, the workings of the Vegan civic administrational structure, and basic legal precepts.

Their copious, rather liquid droppings fouled every inch of any surface whereon people walked, and for all its civic pride, Alexandria seemed to employ no one to wash the mounting excreta away.