a person who is not a member of the armed forces or the police:
Two soldiers and one civilian were killed in the explosion.
civilian adjective [usuallybeforenoun]:
He left the army and returned to civilian life.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for civilian is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is civilian a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, civilian is tagged as noun.
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