Word Finder - civilization

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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.

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Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.

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Human society, particularly civil society.

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A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.

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The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

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

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The state or quality of being civilized.

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He was a man of great civilization.

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The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

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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

He went to study the civilization of the Arab world.

This area was homeland to a civilization dating back to the time of Christ.

The day after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, civilization had to be defended.

Anyone who loves civilization necessarily appreciates the role of government in protecting liberties.

As civilization and technology advance, people begin to create more than they consume.

Gradually, civilization seems to be learning this.

The progress of civilization has resulted in a vast change in the method of punishment.

As civilization advances, we are becoming better people, and unquestionably more empathic.

The ability of a few people to do a massive amount of damage rises as civilization becomes more complex and destructive power increases.

The state of civilization to which they have attained is very low.

I just want to get back to civilization.

The great story of the catastrophe that destroyed an ancient peaceful civilization had been handed down from father to son.

The chapter on civilization describes humanity's progress through the years and the importance of it.

But maybe as a civilization, we have to talk out loud to figure out where we stand, to make progress.

It was almost twenty-four hours before Shipton and Donnie got back to civilization, with the kid's body.

I want to spend some time talking about civilization, but first I want to recount the progress that we have made through civilization.

With every second, they were getting farther from the safety of civilization.

If civilization were more advanced, I would abolish this slavery, if it cost me my head."

Think of how a few thousand years of human civilization got us to a certain amount of computational power.

We live at a defining moment for humanity, as the compounding effects of technology and civilization reach an inflection point.

That they had created modern civilization for Europe availed them nothing.

But the theatres found in almost every town, some of them of very large size, are sufficient to attest the pervading influence of Greek civilization; and this is confirmed by the sculptures, which are for the most part wholly Greek.

The contents of a series of tombs at Mochlos throw an entirely new light on the civilization of the Early Minoan age.

But though he was hailed, especially in lb h France, as the pioneer of European civilization in (ii.) raim, the East, the unsound foundations of his authority d.

Fortunately he recovered from this great blow to become Prime Minister in 1940 and save Western civilization!

The war was the genesis and caused the collapse of the third millenium north Mesopotamian civilization.

His idea of studying man as one of the animals, and of collecting facts about savage tribes to throw light on the problems of civilization, bring him into contact with the one, and his intimate knowledge of Greek philosophy with the other.

The Capella Palatina, at Palermo, the most wonderful of Roger's churches, with Norman doors, Saracenic arches, Byzantine dome, and roof adorned with Arabic scripts, is perhaps the most striking product of the brilliant and mixed civilization over which the grandson of the Norman Trancred ruled.

The next year a Jesuit mission from Tahiti reached the island and succeeded in the task of civilization.

P. In the former he is a descendant of Cain, and through his sons the author of primitive civilization; in the latter he is the father of Noah.

Lamech's family are the originators of various advances in civilization; he himself is the first to marry more than one wife, 'Adah ("ornament," perhaps specially "dawn") and Zillah ("shadow").

No matter your view of history and cosmology, civilization is very young.

The above summary gives, indeed, a very imperfect idea of the extent to which the remains of the great Minoan civilization are spread throughout the island.

Taking a detached view of Turkish civilization, even of the faith of Islam itself, for the two are inseparable - the Committee saw much wanting, much existing that was cumbersome and useless, much that provided a fatal handicap to the progress of the Ottoman State.

Three of these four had made important progress toward civilization.

Along the Croatian and Dalmatian coast there existed a well-developed Latin civilization, which was sustained by constant intercourse with Italy; and, under its influence, the Serbo-Croatian immigrants were converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

The first is a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization.

Wealth and society encourage civilization, which is advantageous to everyone.

With a little more wit we might use these materials so as to become richer than the richest now are, and make our civilization a blessing.

This narrative clearly intends to account for the origin of these various arts as they existed in the narrator's time; it is not likely that he thought of these discoveries as separated from his own age by a universal flood; nor does the tone of the narrative suggest that the primitive tradition thought of these pioneers of civilization as members of an accursed family.

As one of the pioneers of civilization, he was supposed to have taught mankind the arts of medicine, writing and agriculture.

Whether they expanded at the expense of weak aboriginal tribes or were conquered by more robust invaders, Chinese civilization prevailed and assimilated alike the conquered and the conquerors.

Authentic history does not begin till about the 6th century A.D., when Chinese civilization and Buddhism were introduced.

Some authorities hold that Egyptian civilization came from Babylonia, and that the so-called Hamitic languages are older and less specialized members of the Semitic family.

But a great deal of what was formerly assigned to Phoenician influence in the Aegean at an early period - pottery, ornaments and local myths - must be accounted for by the vigorous civilization of ancient Crete.

Whatever truth may lie behind the romantic tales of Christian and Mahommedan, we know that Alphonso represented in a remarkable way the two great influences then shaping the character and civilization of Spain.

Some authorities hold that Peruvian civilization had no connexion with the north and was an entirely indigenous product, but Kechua is in structure not unlike the agglutinative languages of central and northern Asia.

Externally, a Slavonic reaction came, and dealt heavy blows to the eastward advance of German civilization.

No change could be made in any law applicable to Europeans without the unanimous consent of fifteen foreign powersa state of affairs wholly incompatible with the condition of Egypt in the 20th centui1y, an oriental country which has assimilated a very considerable portion of European civilization and which is mainly governed by European methods.

It appears to have arisen on the ruins of an older civilization, whose existence is revealed to us only by the few monuments which it has left.