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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.

Example: Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.

Human society, particularly civil society.

Example: A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.

The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

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

The state or quality of being civilized.

Example: He was a man of great civilization.

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