FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

n An organized culture encompassing many community|communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political(,) or technical development.

n (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.

n The act or process of civilize | civilizing or becoming civilize|civilized.

n The state or quality of being civilized.

n (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

pn 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 civilise | civilised, as savage|savages or barbarian|barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World