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noun
- A stage or system of social, political or technical development of a large scale order encompassing several or many community, communities, often on the nation or people scale. (ancient civilisations; western civilisation; the Aztec civilisation.) cf culture.
- A country or group of countries with a common cultural background.
- The act or state of civilize, civilizing or being civilize, civilized.
- A communal understanding; the achievements of a communal understanding; e.g., Ancient Roman Civilization - the communal understanding of the ancient Romans, or what the communal understanding of the ancient Romans achieved: buildings, conquests, roads, laws.
- A person's preferred human society, with its facilities, in contrast to either wilderness, or uncivilised society.
- I'm glad to get back to after being lost for 3 weeks in the jungle.
- I'm glad to get back to after spending a day with that large noisy group of children.
- (obsolete) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; the state of being refined in manners, from the grossness of savage life and improved in arts and learning.
- (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Translations: proper noun
- Collectively, those people 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 civilise, civilised, as savage, savages or barbarian, barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
Translations: Etymology: From Latin civilizatio, verbal noun of action from perfect passive participle civilizatus + suffix -io, from verb civilizare, from adjective civilis, from civis
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