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# civic

«civic» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with a town or city and its official life, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (civic)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To do with a town or city and its official life, like a civic centre or civic building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#m1)

2) To do with being a citizen and the duties of people in a community, like voting or helping. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in citizenship lessons (civic duty, civic pride) and in town life (civic centre, civic leaders). It tells the reader something belongs to or serves the community. Phrases: civic duty, civic pride, civic centre, civic leaders, civics (a school subject).

### examples

- Voting is a civic duty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x1)
- The concert is in the civic centre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x2)
- The town showed great civic pride after the cleanup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x3)
- Picking up litter is a small civic act. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x4)
- The mayor and other civic leaders opened the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x5)
- In civics class we learned how laws are made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x6)
- The museum is a civic building, owned by the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/#x7)

### note

Goes before a noun. "Civics" is the study of citizenship (a school subject, mainly US). Related: city, citizen, civil. Not the same as civil (polite; or not military).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «civic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.