: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or community affairs
civic duty
civic pride
civic leaders
Examples of civic in a Sentence
Recent improvements to the downtown area are a point of civic pride.
the library association and other civic groups
Voting is your civic duty.
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Democratic governments must expand and protect funding channels to ensure that activists, independent journalists, and civic organizations can investigate corruption, expose disinformation, and mobilize citizens without fear of financial retaliation.
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Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale artworks and installations by some of America’s most important living artists will help set the tone of the nearly 20-acre cultural and civic complex.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
To prepare young people to grapple with complex societal issues, the National Academy of Education has called for classrooms where students learn to engage in civic discourse across subject areas.
—Niral Shah, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
Instead, those services were provided by his company to a civic organization in Atlanta, according to court records.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
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Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
When the Obama Presidential Center opens on Chicago’s South Side in the spring, a series of large-scale artworks and installations by some of America’s most important living artists will help set the tone of the nearly 20-acre cultural and civic complex.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
To prepare young people to grapple with complex societal issues, the National Academy of Education has called for classrooms where students learn to engage in civic discourse across subject areas.
—Niral Shah, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
Instead, those services were provided by his company to a civic organization in Atlanta, according to court records.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Dec. 2025
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“Civic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civic. Accessed 24 Dec. 2025.
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civic
adjective
civ·ic
ˈsiv-ik 
: of or relating to a citizen, a city, or citizenship
civic pride
civic duty
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civic
adjective
civ·ic
ˈsi-vik
: of or relating to a citizen, a city, citizenship, or civil affairs
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