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Civic   /sˈɪvɪk/   Listen
Civic

adjective
1.
Of or relating or belonging to a city.  "Civic problems"
2.
Of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals.  Synonym: civil.  "Civil liberty" , "Civic duties" , "Civic pride"



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"Civic" Quotes from Famous Books



... vintage, when the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth, Purple and gushing: sweet are our escapes From civic revelry to rural mirth; Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps, Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth, Sweet is revenge—especially to women, Pillage ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... peaceful conditions, orderly rule, and civic progress in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and, so far as practicable, in the Philippines, the rehabilitation of the postal service has been an essential and important part of the work. It became necessary to provide mail facilities ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... are celebrating this day. To-day, the black man looks upon his child and says: The avenues to distinction are open to you—upon your brow may fall the civic wreath—this ...
— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll
... the baths mentioned in this chapter are the property of private individuals or companies. The number of baths provided in this country under Act of Parliament or by civic corporations is so small, and their size and design so insignificant, that it would be waste of space to describe them here. They are unworthy of the nation. One of the best is the pretty little bath provided on the first floor of the public bath-house recently ...
— The Turkish Bath - Its Design and Construction • Robert Owen Allsop
... seemed to me that after the roaring greeting of the streets the formal civic addresses of welcome were acts of supererogation. Yet there is no doubt as to the dignity ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton


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