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Definition: Civilisation |
CivilisationNoun1. A society in an advanced state of development. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "civilisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
"Civilisation" is a common misspelling or typo for: civilization. |
Synonym: CivilisationSynonym: civilization (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: crisis of civilisation (social sciences), International Centre for Bantu Civilisations (history & folklore). |
Crosswords: Civilisation |
| Specialty definitions using "civilisation": Back and Edge ♦ Nihilists ♦ Reculer pour Mieux Sauter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Civilisation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (civilisation, civilization, culture), Swedish (civilization). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Civilisation (1969) | |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilisation and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cloisters, although beneficial in the first training of modern civilisation, cramped its growth, and are injurious to its development. |
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| "Civilisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Civilisation" is used about 612 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 612 | 10,535 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "civilisation": lack-of-civilisation, pre-civilisation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "civilisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 文明 (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | civilisation (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Zivilisation (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολιτισμός (culture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | civilizáció (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | civilizzazione (civilization), incivilimento (civilization, civilizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 문명 (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivilisationcay civilizacion (civilization). (various references) ความศิวิไลซ์ (civilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "civilisation": civilisations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-i-i-l-n-o-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: violinistic. | |
-2 letters: ciliations, olivinitic. | |
-3 letters: ciliation, civilians, violinist. | |
-4 letters: avionics, civilian, colistin, initials, isatinic, olivinic, visional, vocalist. | |
-5 letters: actions, alnicos, atonics, avionic, cations, catlins, citolas, clivias, colitis, incisal, incivil, initial, invital, italics, latinos, liaison, oilcans, salicin, silicon, solicit, stoical, talions, tincals, vicinal, violins, violist, voltaic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-i-i-l-n-o-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: civilisations, civilizations, vilifications. | |
+2 letters: convivialities. | |
+3 letters: provincialities. | |
+4 letters: civilianizations, conceivabilities. | |
+5 letters: supercivilization. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 76 69 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. ...- .. .-.. .. ... .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i v i l i s a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0076 0069 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377588757875856786758180 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, chino |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, "랑스, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, 독일, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, 그리스, griego |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coreano, ชาวเกาหลี |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, español |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 타이 말, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, 영국, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
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