Meaning of civilization | Babel Free

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1. An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
   countable, uncountable
2. An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development
3. Collectively, those people and places of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.
   capitalized, sometimes
4. to change the ways of (a primitive people) to those found in a more advanced type of society. The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons. beskaaf يُمدِّن، يُحضِّـر цивилизовам civilizar (z)civilizovat zivilisieren opdrage; civilisere εκπολιτίζωcivilizar tsiviliseerima متمدن کردن sivistää civiliser לְתַרבֵּת सभ्य बनाना prosvijetiti, obrazovati, civilizirati civilizál membudayakan, memajukan siða, mennta, siðmennta civilizzare 文明化する 문명화 되다 civilizuoti, kultūrinti civilizēt memperadabkan b...
5. Human society, particularly civil society
6. Human society, particularly civil society.
   uncountable
7. An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.
8. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized
9. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
   countable, uncountable
10. The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch: Mayan civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome.
11. The state or quality of being civilized
12. The state or quality of being civilized.
    countable, uncountable
13. The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state.
14. The act of rendering a criminal process civil
15. The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. Cultural or intellectual refinement; good taste.
17. Modern society with its conveniences: returned to civilization after camping in the mountains.
18. (Sociology) a human society that has highly developed material and spiritual resources and a complex cultural, political, and legal organization; an advanced state in social development
19. the peoples or nations collectively who have achieved such a state
20. the total culture and way of life of a particular people, nation, region, or period: classical civilization.
21. the process of bringing or achieving civilization

Equivalents

Examples

“the Aztec civilization”

“Western civilization”

“Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.”

“But civilizations, like the penis, rise and fall, and when the towers and battlements crumble into the earth, they return to the embrace of the Great Mother.”

“A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.”

“I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.”

“Civilisation has imbued man's minds with false ideas of the evil of sex and its fulfilment.”

“The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.”

“He was a man of great civilization.”

“Near-synonym: ecumene (archaic)”

“Some of the tourists in the upcountry might have embarrassed themselves if they'd been capable of having any shame, whining that they couldn't wait to get back to civilization.”

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