The war has taken a terrible toll on the civilian population.
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Civilian
//sɪˈvɪl.jən//
Synonyms for "civilian" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
Related word relations
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More general
1 entriesAntonyms
2 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
8 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
151 translations across 56 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
Arabic
3 entries- مَدَنِيّ adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- مَدَنِيَّة noun (non-military person)
- مَدَنِيّ noun (non-military person)
Armenian
1 entries- քաղաքացիական adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- dinc sakin noun (non-military person)
Belarusian
3 entries- цыві́льны adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- цыві́льная асо́ба noun (non-military person)
- цыві́льны чалаве́к noun (non-military person)
Bulgarian
4 entries- гра́ждански adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- циви́лен adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- гражданско лице noun (non-military person)
- мирен жител noun (non-military person)
Burmese
2 entries- အရပ် adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- အရပ်သား noun (non-military person)
Catalan
2 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- paisà noun (non-military person)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 平民 noun (non-military person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 平民 noun (non-military person)
Czech
3 entries- civilní adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilista noun (non-military person)
- civilistka noun (non-military person)
Danish
2 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilist noun (non-military person)
Dutch
3 entries- burger adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civiel adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- burger noun (non-military person)
Esperanto
1 entries- civilulo noun (non-military person)
Estonian
3 entries- tsiviil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- eraisik noun (non-military person)
- tsivilist noun (non-military person)
Finnish
2 entries- siviili adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- siviili noun (non-military person)
French
3 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
- civile noun (non-military person)
Friulian
1 entries- civîl adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Georgian
2 entries- სამოქალაქო adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- სამოქალაქო პირი noun (non-military person)
German
4 entries- zivil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- Zivilist noun (non-military person)
- Zivilistin noun (non-military person)
- Zivilperson noun (non-military person)
Greek
1 entries- πολίτης noun (non-military person)
Hebrew
3 entries- אֶזְרָחִי adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- אֶזְרָח noun (non-military person)
- אֶזְרָחִית noun (non-military person)
Hindi
3 entries- नागरिक adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- सिविल adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- नागरिक noun (non-military person)
Hungarian
4 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- polgári adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
- civil személy noun (non-military person)
Icelandic
1 entries- borgaralegur adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- شَخْصِ غِیْرِنِظامی noun (non-military person)
- غِیْرِنِظامی noun (non-military person)
Irish
1 entries- sibhialtach noun (non-military person)
Italian
2 entries- civile adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civile noun (non-military person)
Japanese
4 entries- 市民の adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- 民間 adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- 文民 noun (non-military person)
- 民間人 noun (non-military person)
Kazakh
1 entries- жай adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Khmer
3 entries- ស៊ីវិល adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- ជនស៊ីវិល noun (non-military person)
- អយោធ noun (non-military person)
Korean
2 entries- 민간의 adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- 민간인 noun (non-military person)
Lao
2 entries- ພົນລະເຮືອນ noun (non-military person)
- ພໍ່ເຮືອນ noun (non-military person)
Latvian
3 entries- civils adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civiliste noun (non-military person)
- civilists noun (non-military person)
Lithuanian
3 entries- civilinis adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilis noun (non-military person)
- civilisė noun (non-military person)
Macedonian
2 entries- цивилен adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- цивил noun (non-military person)
Malay
2 entries- orang awam noun (non-military person)
- orang periman noun (non-military person)
Mongolian
1 entries- иргэн noun (non-military person)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sivil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- sivilist noun (non-military person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sivilist noun (non-military person)
Persian
2 entries- غیرنظامی adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- مدنی adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Polish
2 entries- cywilny adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- cywil noun (non-military person)
Portuguese
2 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
Romanian
3 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
- civilă noun (non-military person)
Russian
4 entries- гражда́нский adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- циви́льный adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- шта́тский adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- гражда́нский noun (non-military person)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sìobhalta adj (not related to the military armed forces)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- cìvīlnī adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- цѝвӣлнӣ adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilistica noun (non-military person)
- civìlist noun (non-military person)
Slovak
3 entries- civilný adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilista noun (non-military person)
- civilistka noun (non-military person)
Slovene
3 entries- civilen adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civilist noun (non-military person)
- civilistka noun (non-military person)
Spanish
3 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
- paisano noun (non-military person)
Swedish
3 entries- civil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- civil noun (non-military person)
- civilist noun (non-military person)
Tajik
4 entries- гражданӣ adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- ғайринизомӣ adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- ғайриҳарбӣ adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- шахси гражданӣ noun (non-military person)
Thai
1 entries- พลเรือน noun (non-military person)
Turkish
2 entries- sivil adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- sivil noun (non-military person)
Ukrainian
4 entries- циві́льний adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- шта́тський adj (not related to the military armed forces)
- циві́льна люди́на noun (non-military person)
- циві́льна осо́ба noun (non-military person)
Vietnamese
3 entries- dân thường noun (non-military person)
- người thường noun (non-military person)
- thường dân noun (non-military person)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
I'm a civilian.
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Tom is a civilian.
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Many soldiers had a hard time coping with civilian life after the war.
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