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n. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
n. a particular society at a particular time and place
n. the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization
n. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
Word Usage
"It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves."