civilization

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
3. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
4. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being civilized.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

Name

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.

Concepts

civilisation

culture

cultivée

raffinement

développement culturel

Opposé de

wilderness, wilds, ;, anecumene

Synonymes

civilisation

culture

society

refinement

enlightenment

sophistication

humanity

way of life

ethos

urbanity

cultivation

cultural development

education

gentility

Traductions

civilização

civiltà

civilización

Zivilisation

πολιτισμός

beschaving

Kultur

civilització

civilizzazione

uygarlık

medeniyet

beschaven

حضارة

civilizatio

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilize + -ation or civil + -ization.

Phrases

You're a man disgusted with all of civilization .