CIVILIAN


Meaning of CIVILIAN in English

/ səˈvɪliən; NAmE / noun

a person who is not a member of the armed forces or the police

►  ci·vil·ian adjective [ usually before noun ]:

He left the army and returned to civilian life.

—compare military

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WORD ORIGIN

late Middle English (denoting a practitioner of civil law): from Old French civilien , in the phrase droit civilien civil law. The current sense arose in the early 19th cent.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.