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Noun
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| act of civilizing
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4
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| state of being civilized
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(included in 1)
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(included in 3)
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| national culture
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(included in 1)
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2
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(included in 1)
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| rendering a criminal process civil
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2 (law, obsolete)
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1 (obsolete, law)
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1 (obsolete)
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| refinement
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3
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5
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6 (incl. "conformity")
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4
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| advanced, complex society
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| peoples who have achieved civilization
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2
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7a
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2
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| culture of a specific place or group
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2b1
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(included in 1)
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| populated/urban areas
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6
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7b ("city life")
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6
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| modern conveniences
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7
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5
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| ideal human culture
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2a
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| process of being/becoming civilized
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(included in 2)
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(included in 4)
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3
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(included in 3)
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| all advances of human culture
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5
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| all human societies
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References
- ^ http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=civilization
- ^ http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=civilization
- ^ http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50016262 (subscription)
- ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civilization
- ^ HarperCollins Publishers (2001) “civilisation”, in Sinclair et al., editors, Collins Concise Dictionary, 5th ed., →ISBN, page 273
- ^ Pearson Education Ltd. (2003) “civilization”, in Quirk et al., editors, Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 4th ed., →ISBN, page 267
- ^ http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged?va=civilization (subscription)
- ^ http://www.bartleby.com/61/79/C0377900.html
- ^ http://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/ (subscription)