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Meaning:
Noun:
- An communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
- obsolete The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
- The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
- The state or quality of being civilized.
- uncountable Human society, particularly civil society.
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Proper noun:
- 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''
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