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civilization
has definitions from the fields of sociology,anthropology
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[ noun ] (sociology) a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
Synonyms Examples "the people slowly progressed from barbarism to civilization" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)If a man totally ignorant of America were to judge our land and its civilization based on Hollywood alone , what conclusions do you think he might come_to ? (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Nor is it an accident that baseball , growing into the national game in the last 75 years , has become a microcosm of American life , that learned societies such_as the American_Folklore_Society and the American_Historical_Association were founded in the 1880's , or that courses in American literature , American civilization , American anything have swept our school and college curricula . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)But apart from racial problems , the old unreconstructed South - to use the moderate words favored by Mr._Thomas_Griffith - finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North . They believe that if the South had been let_alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America . The South 's antipathy to Northern civilization includes such charges as poor manners , harsh accents , lack of appreciation of the arts of living like gastronomy and the use of leisure . |
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[ noun ] (sociology) the social process whereby societies achieve civilization
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[ noun ] (anthropology,sociology) a particular society at a particular time and place
Synonyms Examples "early Mayan civilization" |
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[ noun ] the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste
Synonyms Examples "a man of intellectual refinement" "he is remembered for his generosity and civilization" Related terms |
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