Synonyms for civilization
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Culture — an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or…
2. Acculturation — the act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized
Other
refinement, home, cultivation, sphere, ecumene, oecumene UK
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
- n. 2
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
Related words
- Word family
- civilize
- Other spellings
- civilisation UK
Forms
- Plural
- civilizations → cultures, orders, educations, acculturations…
Example sentences
- culture In culture, they are on the same plane as savages.
- sphere From the sphere emanated some kind of strange glow.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| civilization | steady | |
| culture | rising | |
| acculturation | rising | |
| sphere | steady | |
| ecumene | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- home1
- 5 letters
- order2
- 6 letters
- sphere1
- 7 letters
- culture2, ecumene
- 8 letters
- oecumene
- 9 letters
- education4
- 10 letters
- refinement3
- 11 letters
- cultivation4
- 13 letters
- acculturation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (order2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- civilisation
- Italiano
- civiltà
- Deutsch
- Zivilisation