CIVILIZATION — Definition of CIVILIZATION
noun
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.
Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
2
Human society, particularly civil society.
A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
3
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
4
The state or quality of being civilized.
He was a man of great civilization.
proper noun
1
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
📚 Source: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/civilization
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