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Civilization   /sˌɪvəlɪzˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Civilization

noun
1.
A society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations).  Synonym: civilisation.
2.
The social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization.  Synonym: civilisation.
3.
A particular society at a particular time and place.  Synonyms: civilisation, culture.
4.
The quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.  Synonyms: civilisation, refinement.  "He is remembered for his generosity and civilization"



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"Civilization" Quotes from Famous Books



... obliged to you, Oliver," said Doggie, finally. "But our ideas are entirely different. You're primitive, you know. You seem to find your happiness in defying the elements, whereas I find mine in adopting the resources of civilization to ...
— The Literary World Seventh Reader • Various
 
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... be agreeable enough even to plain ladies when he wished. In one of his books or pamphlets he had said "There is no difference except civilization between a very old woman and an ape." Some time after its publication, when he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, Mrs. Disraeli, herself both elderly and very plain, laid a plan to disconcert him. She seated herself close to a low mirror, in the hopes that Burton would presently ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright
 
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... of Luzon was settled later than the southern islands, civilization has been more widely disseminated in the north. A railway line connects Manila with Dagupan and the other cities of the distant provinces. Aparri, on the Rio Grande, near its mouth, is the commercial port of Cagayan. The country around is rich in live stock, ...
— The Great White Tribe in Filipinia • Paul T. Gilbert
 
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... acquisition of net income, it relates to that portion of one's earnings which is saved from current expenditure and becomes capital. Then we must also consider the duty to society. As we look out upon the surrounding evidences of civilization—buildings and railroads and highly cultivated fields, the machinery of production and distribution, the shops full of useful commodities—and then cast our thought backward to a time not very many years ago when all this ...
— Creating Capital - Money-making as an aim in business • Frederick L. Lipman
 
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... broke into a gallop, leaving Ping Wing and his lazy burros far to the rear of them. They were now crossing that arid region known as the Pahute Mesa, and, just over the horizon, lay a series of broken mountain ranges, wild, cut off from civilization, and shunned by all save those whose duty, fancy or love of adventure called them there. On beyond these the desert again took up its monotonous reach, hotter, more deadly than before. Just now, however, the thoughts of the Overland Riders were on the water hole for which they were ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert • Jessie Graham Flower
 
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