civilization
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.
Example
“the Aztec civilization”
Other meanings
Human society, particularly civil society.
“A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.”
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
“The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.”
Related words
- cradle of civilization
- hypercivilization
- intercivilization
- overcivilization
- postcivilization
- psychocivilization
- subcivilization
- Indus Valley Civilization
- anticivilization
- civilization-state
- civilizational
- civilizationally
Example sentences
Word history
From French "civilisation".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “civilization” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.