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n. An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions.

n. The type of culture and society developed by a particular nation or region or in a particular epoch: Mayan civilization; the civilization of ancient Rome.

n. The act or process of civilizing or reaching a civilized state.

n. Cultural or intellectual refinement; good taste.

n. Modern society with its conveniences: returned to civilization after camping in the mountains.

n. 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.

n. Human society, particularly civil society.

n. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

n. The state or quality of being civilized.

n. The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

proper-noun. 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

n. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.

n. Rendering a criminal process civil.

n. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; the state of being reclaimed from the rudeness of savage life, and advanced in arts and learning.

n. The act of rendering a criminal process civil. Also spelled civilisation.

n. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

n. a particular society at a particular time and place

n. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

n. the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

"I prize highly the advantages of civilization, and the blessings of civil and religious liberty; but never shall a vote of mine be given to encourage unjust invasion and conquest on the pretext of pushing “civilization, ” or to carry the Bible with the sword, so that rapacity may call its crimes “the diffusion of Christianity."

excellence    social process   

refinement   

civilizationally    civilizational   

refinement    civility    reclamation    enlightenment    cultivation    Kultur    order    culture    the land of the living    home   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

culture    civilisation    empire    religion    institution    science    education    race    democracy    literature