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German
Etymology
From French civil, from Latin civīlis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡siˈviːl/
- Hyphenation: Zi‧vil
Noun
Zivil n (strong, genitive Zivils, no plural)
- (oldest sense, now rare) the civilian populace
- plain clothes, civvies
1913, Franz Kafka, Der Heizer, Kurt Wolff Verlag, pages 17–18:Der eine lehnte neben dem Fenster, trug auch die Schiffsuniform und spielte mit dem Griff des Degens. Derjenige, mit dem er sprach, war dem Fenster zugewendet und enthüllte hie und da durch eine Bewegung einen Teil der Ordensreihe auf der Brust des andern. Er war in Zivil und hatte ein dünnes Bambusstöckchen, das, da er beide Hände an den Hüften festhielt, auch wie ein Degen abstand.- One of them leaned beside the window, also wearing the nautical uniform, and played with the grip of the rapier. The one he was talking to faced the window and revealed here and there by a movement a part of the row of decorations on the chest of the other one. He was in civvies and had a thin small bamboo stick, which, since he held both hands on the hips, also stuck out like a rapier.
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