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Alternative spellings
civilisation (British)
Etymology
From Latin civilizatio, verbal noun of action from perfect passive participle civilizatus + suffix -io, from verb civilizare, from adjective civilis, from civis
Pronunciation
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Noun
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- A stage or system of social, political or technical development of a large scale order encompassing several or many community|communities, often on the nation or people scale. (ancient civilisations; western civilisation; the Aztec civilisation.) cf culture''.
- A country or group of countries with a common cultural background.
- The act or state of civilize|civilizing or being civilize|civilized.
- A communal understanding; the achievements of a communal understanding; e.g., Ancient Roman Civilization - the communal understanding of the ancient Romans, or what the communal understanding of the ancient Romans achieved: buildings, conquests, roads, laws.
- A person's preferred human society, with its facilities, in contrast to either wilderness, or uncivilised society.
#:I'm glad to get back to civilization after being lost for 3 weeks in the jungle.
#:I'm glad to get back to civilization after spending a day with that large noisy group of children.
- obsolete The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; the state of being refined in manners, from the grossness of savage life and improved in arts and learning.
- obsolete The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
Translations
trans-top|an advanced state of society
Chinese: ææ, ææ (wén mÃng)
Czech: t+|cs|civilizace|f
Danish: t-|da|civilisation|c, t-|da|kultur|c
Finnish: sivilisaatio
Greek: t|el|ÏολιÏιÏμÏÏ|m|sc=Grek (politismós)
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Japanese: Jpan|ææ (Jpan|ã¶ããã, bunmei)
Kurdish:
Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f, ÑивилизованноÑÑÑ (civilizóvannost') f, кÑлÑÑÑÑа (kul'túra) f
Swedish: t-|sv|civilisation|c, t+|sv|kultur|c
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trans-top|a group of people or country with a common cultural background
Bosnian: t-|bs|civilizacija
Chinese: æå, æå (wén huà )
Croatian: t-|hr|civilizacija
Danish: t-|da|civilisation|c, t-|da|kultur|c
Finnish: kulttuuri, sivilisaatio
Hebrew: צ×××××××צ×× (tzivilizatzia) f
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Kurdish:
Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f, кÑлÑÑÑÑа (kul'túra) f
Serbian: t-|sr|civilizacija
Swedish: t-|sv|civilisation|c, t+|sv|kultur|c
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trans-top|the act or state of being civilized
Chinese: ææå, ææå (wén mÃn huà )
Danish: civilisering c
Finnish: sivistää|sivistäminen, sivistyä|sivistyminen, sivilisaatio
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Japanese: Jpan|ææå (Jpan|ã¶ãããã, bunmeika)
Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f
Swedish: civilisering c
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trans-top|the achievements of communal understanding
Chinese: ææå家, ææå½å®¶ (wén mÃn guó jiÄ)
Greek: t|el|ÏολιÏιÏμÏÏ|m|sc=Grek (politismós)
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Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f, ÑивилизованноÑÑÑ (civilizóvannost') f, кÑлÑÑÑÑа (kul'túra) f
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trans-top|preferred human society
Chinese: ææå家, ææå½å®¶ (wén mÃn guó jiÄ)
Danish: t-|da|civilisation|c
Finnish: sivistys
Hebrew: צ×××××××צ×× (tzivilizatzia) f
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Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f, кÑлÑÑÑÑа (kul'túra) f
Swedish: t-|sv|civilisation|c
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Proper noun
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- 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 civilise|civilised, as savage|savages or barbarian|barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
Translations
trans-top|people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior
Danish: t-|da|civilisation|c
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Russian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (civilizácija) f
Swedish: t-|sv|civilisation|c
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ttbc|Bulgarian: ÑивилизаÑÐ¸Ñ (tsivilizatsiya), ÑивилизованноÑÑ (tsivilizovannost), кÑлÑÑÑа (kultura)
ttbc|Catalan: civilització
ttbc|Dutch: beschaving
ttbc|Esperanto: civiliso10
ttbc|French: civilisation
ttbc|German: Zivilisation f, Kultur f
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ttbc|Hungarian: civilizáció, kultúra
ttbc|Italian: Civiltà , civilizazione
ttbc|Latin: civilizatio
ttbc|Norwegian: kulturen f
ttbc|Persian: FAchar|تÙدÙ|تÙدÙÙ
ttbc|Polish: cywilizacja
ttbc|Spanish: civilización
ttbc|Telugu: నాà°à°°à°¿à°à°¤ (naagarikata)
ttbc|Turkish: medeniyet,uygarlık
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