different between general vs civil
general
English
Alternative forms
- generall (chiefly archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English general, in turn from Anglo-Norman general, generall, Middle French general, and their source, Latin gener?lis, from genus (“class, kind”) + -?lis (“-al”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?d???n??l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d???n???l/
- Hyphenation: gene?ral, gen?er?al
Adjective
general (comparative more general, superlative most general)
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. [from 13th c.]
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. [from 14th c.]
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.]
- Not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category. [from 14th c.]
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite. [from 16th c.]
- Not limited to a specific class; miscellaneous, concerned with all branches of a given subject or area. [from 16th c.]
Synonyms
- (involving every part or member): broad, generic; see also Thesaurus:generic
- (prevalent or widespread): typical; see also Thesaurus:common
Antonyms
- (involving every part or member): particular, specific; see also Thesaurus:specific
- (prevalent or widespread): abnormal, uncommon
Derived terms
Related terms
- universal
- common
Translations
Noun
general (countable and uncountable, plural generals)
- (now rare) A general fact or proposition; a generality. [from 16th c.]
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]
- A great strategist or tactician. [from 16th c.]
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits. [from 16th c.]
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral. [16th-18th c.]
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid with no specific duties. [from 19th c.]
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
Usage notes
When used as a title, it is always capitalized.
- Example: General John Doe.
The rank corresponds to pay grade O-10. Abbreviations: GEN.
Coordinate terms
- (insurance industry): health, life, pensions
Translations
See also
- hetman
Verb
general (third-person singular simple present generals, present participle generalling or generaling, simple past and past participle generalled or generaled)
- To lead (soldiers) as a general.
Adverb
general (not comparable)
- (obsolete) In a general or collective manner or sense; in most cases; upon the whole.
Anagrams
- enlarge, gleaner, reangle
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /??.n???al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /d??e.ne??al/
Adjective
general (masculine and feminine plural generals)
- general
Noun
general m (plural generals, feminine generala)
- (military) general
Derived terms
Further reading
- “general” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “general” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “general” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “general” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Noun
general c (singular definite generalen, plural indefinite generaler)
- general
Inflection
Ladin
Adjective
general m (feminine singular generala, masculine plural generai, feminine plural generales)
- general
Middle English
Alternative forms
- generall, generale
Etymology
From a mixture of Anglo-Norman general, Middle French general, and Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??n??ra?l/, /?d??n?ral/
Adjective
general
- universal, complete
- comprehensive, wide-ranging
- general, widely useable or applicable
- common, widely present
Descendants
- English: general
- Scots: general
References
- “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Noun
general (plural generals)
- genus, class, group
References
- “?ener?l, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generaler, definite plural generalene)
- (military) a general
Derived terms
- generalguvernør
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
general m (definite singular generalen, indefinite plural generalar, definite plural generalane)
- (military) a general
Derived terms
- generalguvernør
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gener?lis.
Noun
general m (oblique plural generaus or generax or generals, nominative singular generaus or generax or generals, nominative plural general)
- (military) general
Adjective
general m (oblique and nominative feminine singular generale)
- general (not limited in use or application; applicable to the whole or every member of a class or category)
Declension
Descendants
- ? English: general
- French: général
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gener?lis. See also geral, from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?e.ne??a??/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /??.n???a?/
- Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral
Noun
general m (plural generais, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)
- (military) general
Descendants
- ? Tetum: jenerál
Further reading
- “general” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French général, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??e.ne?ral/
Noun
general m (plural generali)
- general
Declension
Adjective
general m or n (feminine singular general?, masculine plural generali, feminine and neuter plural generale)
- general
Declension
Related terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German General, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?en?ra?l/
- Hyphenation: ge?ne?ral
Noun
genèr?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- (military) general
Declension
Slovene
Etymology
From German General, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?rá?l/
Noun
gener?l m anim (female equivalent gener?lica or gener?lka)
- (military) general
Inflection
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xene??al/, [xe.ne??al]
Adjective
general (plural generales)
- general
Derived terms
Noun
general m (plural generales, feminine generala, feminine plural generalas)
- (military) general
Descendants
- ? Cebuano: heneral
- ? Tagalog: heneral
Further reading
- “general” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From German General, from Old French general, from Latin gener?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?n(?)?r??l/
Noun
general c
- a general; a military title
- an Air Chief Marshal
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: kenraali
References
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civil
English
Etymology
From Middle English cyvyl, civil, borrowed from Old French civil, from Latin c?v?lis (“relating to a citizen”), from c?vis (“citizen”). Cognate with Old English h?wen (“household”), h?r?den (“family”). More at hind; hird. Doublet of civic.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s?v-?l IPA(key): /?s?v.?l/
- Rhymes: -?v?l
Adjective
civil (comparative more civil, superlative most civil)
- (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
- She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
- (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
- It was very civil of him to stop the argument.
- Antonyms: anti-civil, impolite, inconsiderate, noncivil, rude
- (law) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.
- a civil case
- Secular.
Derived terms
Related terms
- civic
- civilization
Translations
References
- civil at OneLook Dictionary Search
- civil in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- civil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- clivi
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil (epicene, plural civiles)
- civil, civilian
Derived terms
- civilización
- guerra civil
- xunión civil
References
- "civil" in Diccionariu de la Llingua Asturiana
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /si?vil/
- (Central) IPA(key): /si?bil/
Adjective
civil (masculine and feminine plural civils)
- civil
- civilian
Antonyms
- (polite): incivil
- (civilian): militar
Derived terms
Related terms
- civilitat
Noun
civil m or f (plural civils)
- a member of the guardia civil
Further reading
- “civil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?vi?l/
Adjective
civil
- civil (all senses), civilian
Inflection
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.vil/
Adjective
civil (feminine singular civile, masculine plural civils, feminine plural civiles)
- civil (war, marriage etc.)
- (politics) lay
- civilian
- (literary) civil, courteous, polite
Derived terms
Related terms
- civique
- cité
Noun
civil m (plural civils, feminine civile)
- civilian
Further reading
- “civil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil m or f (plural civís)
- civil, civilian
Derived terms
- guerra civil
- unión civil
References
- "civil" in Real Academia Galega
Interlingua
Adjective
civil (not comparable)
- civil, civilian (not associated with the armed forces)
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis, from c?vis (“citizen”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie down, settle; home, family; love; beloved”).
Adjective
civil m
- (Jersey) polite
- (Jersey) civil
Derived terms
- dgèrre civile (“civil war”)
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil m (feminine singular civila, masculine plural civils, feminine plural civilas)
- civil
Derived terms
- guèrra civila f
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis (“civil”), from c?vis (“citizen”). Doublet of cível.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /si?viw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /si?vi?/
- Hyphenation: ci?vil
- (Brazil) Rhymes: -iw
- (Portugal) Rhymes: -i?
Adjective
civil m or f (plural civis, comparable)
- civil; civilian (not relating to the military or clergy)
- civic (relating to citizens)
- Synonym: cívico
- Antonym: militar
- (law) relating to civil law
- Synonym: cível
- Antonym: criminal
- occurring between the inhabitants of the same country
- civil (behaving in a reasonable or polite manner)
- Synonyms: civilizado, cortês, educado, polido
- Antonyms: deseducado, grosseiro, deselegante, feio
Derived terms
- casado no civil
- casar no civil
- guerra civil
Noun
civil m, f (plural civis)
- civilian, non-combatant (person who is not a member of the military, police or belligerent group)
Derived terms
Romanian
Alternative forms
- ?ivil (archaic and popular)
Etymology
Borrowed from French civil, Latin civilis.
Adjective
civil m or n (feminine singular civil?, masculine plural civili, feminine and neuter plural civile)
- civil
Declension
Noun
civil m (plural civili)
- civilian
Declension
Related terms
- civilitate
- civiliza
- civiliza?ie
- cetate
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zivil, from French civil, from Latin c?v?lis (“civic, civil”), from c?vis (“citizen”).
Noun
cìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- civilian (not related to the military armed forces)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis (“civil, civic”), from c?vis (“citizen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?i?bil/, [?i???il]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /si?bil/, [si???il]
- Homophone: sibil (non-Castilian dialects)
- Rhymes: -il
Adjective
civil (plural civiles) (superlative civilísimo)
- civil (all senses)
Derived terms
Related terms
Swedish
Adjective
civil
- civil; having to do with people and organizations outside military or police, sometimes also outside of other team-based activities, such as a professional sports team
Declension
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