- a person not in the armed services or the police force平民, 老百姓（区别于军、警）。
- of, denoting, or relating to a person not belonging to the armed services or police平民的; 民间的; 民用的：
military agents in civilian clothes.
穿着便衣的军队密探。
词源
late Middle English (denoting a practitioner of civil law)： from Old French civilien, in the phrase droit civilien 'civil law'. The current sense arose in the early 19th cent.