Civilisation

Word CIVILISATION
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Definitions and meanings of "Civilisation"

What do we mean by civilisation?

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.

Human society, particularly civil society.

The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

The state or quality of being civilized.

The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

The social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organisation; a society in an advanced state of social development ; the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste. Urban Dictionary

A colony or town mondernising itself and it’s social infrastructure. Urban Dictionary

Is when 2 female friends go out for "a" glass of wine together with the intention of having a girly chat and a bit of relaxation. Urban Dictionary

A bunch of people loling Urban Dictionary

It is the civilisation founded by the first Kundians in Asia Urban Dictionary

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The word "civilisation" in example sentences

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. ❋ Abhay N (2006)

Much of what we call civilisation is structure that has developed over time to limit monopolies. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Every now and then they improve their condition a little and what we call civilisation appears. ❋ TERRY RUSH (1995)

With what we call civilisation hundreds of miles away, in a country where law and order are to be regarded more as names than facts, one has a great joy in mere living, intensified doubtless by long hours spent in the saddle, by occasional hard work and curtailed rest, and by the daily sight of the rising sun. ❋ S.L. Bensusan (N/A)

Can what they call civilisation be right, if people mayn't die in the room where they were born? ❋ Unknown (1924)

Now that process, however necessary, however beneficial, involves some of the chief evils of our present phase of what we call civilisation, partly because it has deteriorated the quality of all human products and partly because it has enslaved mankind, and in so doing deteriorated also his quality. 12 Now we cannot abolish machinery, because machinery lies in the very essence of life and we ourselves are machines. ❋ Unknown (1921)

This evaluation, in so far as it is constant, results in what we call civilisation, and is the only bond of society. ❋ T. Sturge Moore (1907)

One could have believed him a soldier, a German, anything but what he was, a peasant from the furthest shores of Western Ireland, cut off from what we call civilisation by his ignorance of any language save his own ancient speech, wherein the ideas of to-day stand out in English words like telegraph posts in a Connemara moorland. ❋ Martin Ross (1903)

I was a dweller under roofs; the gull of that which we call civilisation; a superstitious votary of the plastic arts; a cit, and a prop of restaurants. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"All races have their social codes -- what they call civilisation," rejoined Kingsley. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

He progresses in what he calls civilisation, which so long as it is purely self-aggrandisement, is but a common circle, bringing him back in due course to primitive savagery. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

While what we call civilisation could never have arisen had it not been for science, science forms scarcely an appreciable element in our so-called civilised training. ❋ Herbert Spencer (1861)

So great is this influence -- so unconsciously do we associate the type of spiritual with material beauty, that perhaps the world might have been purer and better if its onward progress in what it calls civilisation had not so nearly destroyed the fair mould of symmetry and loveliness which tradition celebrates. ❋ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1856)

[Refined] [dining] is said by some to be the epitome of [civilisation] and then there's McDonalds. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

[Yo] “ [this town] is really [civilisating] itself” ❋ Town Maker (2021)

An example of civilised - 2 friends drinking 3 bottles of wine, [staggering] home via the Indian and not remembering entering the building let alone having a conversation with a little Indian man, then falling [sleep on] your friends floor before waking up and puking all over their [settee] and laptop. ❋ Day Long Legs (2014)

[P1]. "[theres] a lol-civilisation over there" [P2]. "lets join " ❋ 3323454211997643 (2009)

The [Kundian Civilisation] is for Kundians ❋ The Kundian (2023)

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