What does civic mean?
Word: Civic
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Civic means to do with a town or city, or with the duties people have as citizens.
Synonyms: public
How do you spell civic?
Syllables: civ - ic
Tricky part: Both the first and last letters are c, so the word reads the same backwards. The ending is a plain -ic, with no k, as in music.
Watch out for: civik, civick, civvic
Memory tip: Civic is a palindrome: read it backwards and it is still civic. Write c-i-v and then mirror it.
Civic in a sentence
Example 1: Voting in every election is part of our civic duty.
Example 2: The new civic centre has a library and a community hall.
Example 3: Our class wrote to the civic body about the broken streetlights.
Fun Fact
The word comes from Latin civis, a citizen. In ancient Rome, a citizen who saved the life of a fellow citizen was given a civic crown made of oak leaves.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) comunity
b) pedestrain
c) responsability
d) civic
Show answer
d) civic. Pedestrian ends in -ian, community needs two m's, and responsibility has an i after the s.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
civic
a) rural
b) private
c) foreign
d) municipal
Show answer
d) municipal. Municipal also refers to the running of a town, so it matches civic.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ivcci
a) civic
b) civil
c) vivid
d) cynic
Show answer
a) civic. Two c's, two i's and a v: civil needs an l and vivid a d.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The civic body has promised to repair the broken footpath before the monsoon begins.
a) civic
b) promissed
c) footpath
d) monsoon
Show answer
b) promissed. Promise has one s, and promised keeps just that one.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which habit shows civic sense?
a) putting litter in a public bin
b) brushing your teeth twice a day
c) practising the piano every day
d) finishing homework before dinner
Show answer
a) putting litter in a public bin
2. A town's civic body looks after ____.
a) the prices of goods in shops
b) the country's army and navy
c) the national railway network
d) roads, water supply and waste
Show answer
d) roads, water supply and waste
