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1. The social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization
   - civilization
    
2. A particular society at a particular time and place
   "early Mayan civilisation"
   - culture, civilization
    
3. 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 civilisation"
   - civilization
    
4. The quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
   "a man of intellectual civilisation"
   - refinement, civilization

Derived forms: civilisations

See also: civilise [Brit]

Type of: excellence, social process, society

Encyclopedia: Civilisation