What is the difference between civilization and culture?
civilization | culture | Synonyms |
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
The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=164, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
(anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
The collective noun for a group of bacteria.
(botany) Cultivation.
* http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/suffolk/grownet/flowers/sprgbulb.htm
(computing) The language and peculiarities of a geographical location.
To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria).
To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something).
Culture is a synonym of civilization.
As nouns the difference between civilization and culture
is that 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 while culture is the arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.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 barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised WorldAs a verb culture is
to maintain in an environment suitable for growth especially of bacteria.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 .
Synonyms
* (large-scale stage of societal development) culture, order * (group of countries) sphere * (act of civilizing) education, acculturation * (preferred human society) home, the land of the livingDerived terms
* civilizational * civilizationallyProper noun
(en proper noun)External links
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English
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(en noun)Farming as rocket science, passage=Such differences of history and culture have lingering consequences. Almost all the corn and soyabeans grown in America are genetically modified. GM crops are barely tolerated in the European Union. Both America and Europe offer farmers indefensible subsidies, but with different motives.}}
Race Finished, passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture , ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution.}}
- The Culture of Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- A culture is the combination of the language that you speak and the geographical location you belong to. It also includes the way you represent dates, times and currencies. ... Examples: en-UK, en-US, de-AT, fr-BE, etc.