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civil tongues

civil tongues is the plural of civil tongue.

Meaning of civil tongue

Noun

civil tongue (plural civil tongues)

  1. (idiomatic) A polite manner of speaking.
    • "[T]here would not have been the least offence had the youth only possessed a civil tongue."1855, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 3, in The Lances Of Lynwood

Questions about civil tongues

What is civil tongues the plural of?
Civil tongues is the plural of civil tongue.

Words near civil tongues in the dictionary

  1. civil statuses
  2. civil suit
  3. civil suits
  4. civil time
  5. civil tongue
  6. civil tongues
  7. civil trial
  8. civil trials
  9. civil twilight
  10. civil twilights
  11. civil union

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil tongues (page history and authors); civil tongue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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