civilians
Saysi-VIL-yuhnz/sɪˈvɪljənz/
- 1Plural of civilian.
The treaty required both armies to protect civilians during the conflict.
Aid workers struggled to reach civilians trapped behind the front lines.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a plain -s, and it carries every meaning of the singular: people outside the armed forces, outsiders to a profession or pastime in informal use, those skilled in civil law or studying it, and employees of the civil service. Before a noun, use the adjective instead, which never takes the -s: civilian casualties, not civilians casualties.
civilians is a form of civilian
civilian, noun: A person who lives an ordinary civil life, especially someone who is not a member of the armed forces. Full entry
- Forms
- civiliancivilians plural
- Spelling
- civilian → civilians: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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