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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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