Civilization - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a particular society at a particular time and place (syn: culture)
Extra examples
We are studying ancient Greek civilization.
When I returned to civilization...
The book explores the relationship between religion and civilization.
After a week in the mountains all I wanted to do was get back to civilization.
When I returned to civilization
The oldest known civilization in the region
The civilization began to decline around 1000 B.C.
The civilization collapsed for reasons that are still unknown.
...a symbol of the decadence of their once-mighty civilization...
...a few crumbling ruins are all that remain of that departed civilization...
...a few overgrown ruins are all that remain of that once mighty but now extinct civilization...
...we can scarcely imagine what observers in some remote futurity will think of civilization as it existed at the dawn of the 21st century...
The civilization perished after 500 years.
...an advanced Mesoamerican civilization whose apex and collapse preexisted the arrival of Europeans by hundreds of years...
...the Dark Ages, the period following the fall of the Roman Empire when Western civilization seriously retrograded...
Word forms
singular: civilization
plural: civilizations
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