English-Dutch translations for civilization

• beschaving
  Dit is een echte uitdaging voor onze beschaving. This is a real issue of civilization.
  Mevrouw Ainardi had het over een uitdaging voor onze beschaving. Mrs Ainardi mentioned issues of civilization.
  Natuurlijk heeft deze beschaving niet alleen maar mooie kanten gekend. Of course, this civilization has not had only good sides to it.
• bewoonde wereld
• civilisatie

Definition of civilization

• 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
• Human society, particularly civil society
• The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized
• The state or quality of being civilized
• The act of rendering a criminal process civil
• 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''

Examples

• the Aztec civilization
• Western civilization
• Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization
• A hermit doesnt much care for civilization
• Im glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family
• The teachers civilization of the child was no easy task
• He was a man of great civilization

Related words

• civilization-state
• anticivilization
• civilization trash
• civilization language
• Indus Valley Civilization
• advanced civilization
• clash of civilizations
• Greek civilization