civilization

Plural

civilizations

1. 1.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.

   • Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
   • But civilizations, like the penis, rise and fall, and when the towers and battlements crumble into the earth, they return to the embrace of the Great Mother.

2. 2.Human society, particularly civil society.

   • A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
   • I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
   • Civilisation has imbued man's minds with false ideas of the evil of sex and its fulfilment.

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

   • The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.

4. 4.The state or quality of being civilized.

   • He was a man of great civilization.

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