civilization
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Definitions ofcivilization
- 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.
Example: "Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization."
- Human society, particularly civil society.
Example: "A hermit doesn't much care for civilization."
- The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
Example: "The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task."
- The state or quality of being civilized.
Example: "He was a man of great civilization."
- The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
- 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 civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
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