Barbarian vs Civilization - What's the difference?
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Relating to people, countries or customs perceived as uncivilized or inferior.
An uncivilized or uncultured person, originally compared to the hellenistic Greco-Roman civilisation; often associated with fighting or other such shows of strength.
(derogatory) Someone from a developing country or backward culture.
A warrior, clad in fur or leather, associated with sword and sorcery stories.
(derogatory) A person destitute of culture; a Philistine.
A cruel, savage, brutal person; one without pity or humanity.
* Philips
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.
(uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
The act or process of civilizing]] or becoming [[civilize, civilized.
The state or quality of being civilized.
(obsolete) 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 [[barbarian, barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
As a verb barbarian
is .As a noun civilization is
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.As a proper noun civilization is
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 [[barbarian|barbarians cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world .barbarian
English
(wikipedia barbarian)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* barbaric * barbarousNoun
(en noun)- Thou fell barbarian .
civilization
Alternative forms
* civilisation (UK)Noun
(en noun)- the Aztec civilization
- Western civilization
- Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
- A hermit doesn't much care for civilization .
- I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
- The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
- He was a man of great civilization .