From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en]. Equivalent to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces.
2. * 1858 , [Prince George, Duke of Cambridge] , letter to [Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde] :
3. *: An army never can be commanded or controlled by CIVILIANS .
4. [en] A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity, an outsider .
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=w:Eminem | chapter=The Monster | title=The Marshall Mathers LP 2
|passage=I have this vision one day that I'll walk amongst you a regular
CIVILIAN.}}
1. One skilled in civil law .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1724 | author=w:Jonathan Swift | chapter=w:Drapier's Letters | title= Basa Sunda: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 9/The Drapier’s Letters 4
|passage=Ancient CIVILIANS and writers upon government.}}
1. A student of civil law at a university or college .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1788 | author=w:Richard Graves | title=Recollection of Some Particulars in the Life of the Late William Shenstone
|passage=although he kept his name in the college books, and changed his
commoner gown to that of a CIVILIAN, yet he had now, I believe, no thoughts of
proceeding to any degree; and seldom resided in college any more}}
1. An employee of the civil service .
**** Translations
[non-military person]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Azerbaijani: [az] [non-combatant]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
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*** Adjective
[-]
1. Not relate d to the military, police or other governmental professions.
**** Translations
[not related to the military armed forces]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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*** Derived terms
[en]
[en]