Definitions for civilisation
civil·i·sa·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. civilization, civilisationnoun

   the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

2. culture, civilization, civilisationnoun

   a particular society at a particular time and place

   "early Mayan civilization"

3. civilization, civilisationnoun

   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 civilization"

4. refinement, civilization, civilisationnoun

   the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

   "a man of intellectual refinement"; "he is remembered for his generosity and civilization"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Civilisationnoun

   A law, act of justice, or judgment, which renders a criminal process civil; which is performed by turning an information into an inquest, or the contrary. John Harris

   Etymology: from civil.

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1. civilisation

   A civilization (or civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system).Civilizations are additionally characterized by specialization of labour, agriculture, architecture, infrastructure, technological advancement, taxation, and regulation.Historically, a civilization has often been understood as a larger and "more advanced" culture, in implied contrast to smaller, supposedly less advanced cultures. In this broad sense, a civilization contrasts with non-centralized tribal societies, including the cultures of nomadic pastoralists, Neolithic societies or hunter-gatherers; however, sometimes it also contrasts with the cultures found within civilizations themselves. Civilizations are organized densely-populated settlements divided into hierarchical social classes with a ruling elite and subordinate urban and rural populations, which engage in intensive agriculture, mining, small-scale manufacture and trade. Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature, including over other human beings.Civilization, as its etymology suggests, is a concept originally associated with towns and cities. The earliest emergence of civilizations is generally connected with the final stages of the Neolithic Revolution in West Asia, culminating in the relatively rapid process of urban revolution and state formation, a political development associated with the appearance of a governing elite.

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1. civilisation

   Civilisation is a complex human society that has developed its culture and institutions, characterised by aspects such as advanced levels of political organisation, social stratification, economic and technological structures, specific ideologies, arts, sciences, and written communication. Usually established in specific geographical areas, civilisations often include multiple diverse communities unified by a shared identity or common objectives.

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1. Civilisation

   Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a television documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2. Both the television scripts and the accompanying book version were written by art historian Kenneth Clark, who also presented the series. The series is considered to be a landmark in British Television's broadcasting of the visual arts. The BBC remastered the original films onto HD in 2011. The series was re-broadcast on the BBC HD channel from 9 February to 4 May 2011, and shortly after was released on Blu-Ray.

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1. • Archeology
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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of civilisation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of civilisation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of civilisation in a Sentence

1. Anandabai Joshee:

   Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

2. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

   We cannot lose this war, because it is essentially a war of civilisation, it is our society, our civilisation and our values that we must defend.

3. Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde:

   Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

4. Colin Wilson:

   In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle.

5. Elon Musk:

   It would be better if we mitigated the effects of global warming and had cleaner air in our cities and were n’t drilling for vast amounts of coal, oil and gas in parts of the world that are problematic and will run out anyway, and if we were a multiplanetary species, that would reduce the possibility of some single event, man-made or natural, taking out civilisation as we know it, as it did the dinosaurs.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=civilisation
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=civilisation
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=civilisation
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=civilisation