CIVIL DEFENSE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("civil defense" is a kind of...):

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil defense"):

fire watching ((during World War II in Britain) watching for fires started by bombs that dropped from the sky)