English-German translations for civilization

• Zivilisation die
  Hier setzen wir unsere Zivilisation aufs Spiel. This is a real issue of civilization.
  Diese Zivilisation hat zwar nicht nur gute Seiten gehabt. Of course, this civilization has not had only good sides to it.
  Deshalb müssen wir dieses Verbrechen von seiten des Staates verhindern: Es geht um eine Frage der Zivilisation! That is why we must stop this State crime: it is a question of civilization!
• Kultur die
  Es sind Zeichen, und wir interpretieren sie aufgrund unserer Kultur und Zivilisation auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise. They are symbols, and symbols have a meaning. That is our culture and our civilization.
  Ich bin in einer iberischen Kultur großgeworden, in der die Ehre noch etwas zählt. I was brought up in an Iberian civilization where honour is still respected.
  Es geht um Bestrebungen, uns eine der Errungenschaften unserer Zivilisation und unserer Kultur streitig zu machen. It is about an attempt to challenge our right to one of the achievements of our civilization and our culture.
• Bildung die
• Zivilisiertwerden das

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