| civilization | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| the Aztec civilization | |
| Western civilization | |
| Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized. | |
| The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task. | |
| 4. n. The state or quality of being civilized. | |
| He was a man of great civilization. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil. | |
