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/ˌsɪvəɫɪˈzeɪʃən/
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NOUN
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the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
a man of intellectual refinement
he is remembered for his generosity and civilization -
a particular society at a particular time and place
early Mayan civilization -
a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization - the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization
How To Use civilization In A Sentence
- By 1100 the civilization of Europe was somewhat stabilized.
- The art installation suggests the continuity and fragility of Mediterranean civilization, reminding us of the simultaneous remoteness and seamlessness of the past.
- The ancient civilizations of Central and Latin America were founded upon corn.
- Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
- I need to own a gun, multiculturalism is evil, and they have some hallucinatory fantasies about Aryan civilization.
- When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization.
- Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
- All ancient civilizations have records of the use of herbs in the treatment of common illnesses. Eczema Relief - the comprehensive self-help plan
- The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.
- Compared with the action of this destructive solvent, that of all other disintegrating agencies concerned in our decivilization is as the languorous indiligence of rosewater to the mordant fury of nitric acid. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
