civilization

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

wilderness, wilds, ;, anecumene

Synonyms

civilisation

culture

society

refinement

enlightenment

sophistication

humanity

way of life

ethos

urbanity

cultivation

cultural development

education

gentility

Translations

civilisation

civilização

civiltà

civilización

Zivilisation

πολιτισμός

beschaving

Kultur

civilizzazione

civilització

uygarlık

culture

medeniyet

beschaven

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

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

Sentences

You're a man disgusted with all of civilization .