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▸ noun:  An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
▸ noun:  The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
▸ noun:  The state or quality of being civilized.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
▸ noun:  (inherently emic, sometimes capitalized) Collectively, those people and places 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. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.

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