civilization
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Is civilization a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of civilization?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.Examples: "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."Synonyms: home, the land of the livinguncountable
2. (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.countableobsoleteuncountable
name (English)
1. (inherently emic, sometimes capitalized) 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.Examples: "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."Antonyms: wilderness, wilds, ;, anecumenecapitalizedsometimes
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