Synonym: culture. Antonym: barbarism. Similar words: utilization, stabilization, nationalization, civilize, realization, socialization, globalization, specialization. Meaning: [‚sɪvɪlaɪ'zeɪʃn] 
n. 1. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) 2. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization 3. a particular society at a particular time and place 4. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste.
n. 1. a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) 2. the social process whereby societies achieve civilization 3. a particular society at a particular time and place 4. the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste. 
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91. Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. Sigmund Freud 
92. But it is in politics and in the broader field of civilization that the greatest uncertainties arise.
93. Hunger, disease and civil disorder would destroy what was left of civilization.
93. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
94. I told them that we have dramatically transformed the relationship between human civilization and the earth.
95. There was nothing down there on the earth-no towns, no light, no signs of civilization at all.
96. Westerners call what they have established out here a civilization, but it would be more accurate to call it a beachhead.
97. The expansion of human civilization into space is feasible because of the availability of vast asteroidal and planetary resources.
98. By accepting it, the world is not taking on Western civilization lock, stock and barrel: far from it.
99. In her second semester she arrived late one day for her World Civilization class.
100. The pattern of devaluing women's contribution is as old as human civilization.
101. Called to attend at 10.15 in the morning, we started in the time-honoured way of civilization with a coffee break.
102. It takes about a kilowatt per person to maintain a technologically advanced civilization with a high standard of living.
103. The effects of comet and asteroid impacts are potentially damaging to life in general, and to human civilization in particular.
104. Our century has seen greater climate changes than any period since the dawn of civilization.
105. In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. Ambrose Bierce
106. Without them society would be swamped by new barbarians, both from inside and outside the civilization.
107. What makes them different is their talent and their skills, without which our civilization would lose a priceless artistic heritage.
108. Britain would advance to a higher stage of civilization via favourable environment and sound heredity.
109. On the one hand, they possessed no deep appreciation for what Latin civilization was, or how it functioned.
110. Probably this text on the ancient civilization of Sumer would not be a good place to begin.
111. The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. Albert Camus
112. Such tech gangs held the frontier between the tangled civilization above and the bestiality beneath.
113. The course covered all of western civilization.
114. By 1100 the civilization of Europe was somewhat stabilized.
115. Modern Asian cultures are influenced by Western civilization.
116. Los Angeles is a premonition of this new civilization.
117. Sumer and its great civilization lie prostrate.
118. Greece was the cradle of Western civilization.
119. The color stonework was the ancient times civilization record.
120. China has the wold's oldest living civilization.
More similar words: utilization, stabilization, nationalization, civilize, realization, socialization, globalization, specialization, naturalization, externalization, hospitalization, internalization, industrialization, privatization, acclimatization, civilian, polarization, colonization, urbanization, randomization, organization, authorization, secularization, organizational, synchronization, civil, civil war, civil right, civil rights, civil service.