What is the meaning of civilized?

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verb

  • Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment.
    • usage: "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
  • Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state.
    • usage: "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"

adjective

  • Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological.
    • usage: "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
  • Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
    • usage: "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
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APAWordNet. (2010). Civilized. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/civilized/definitions/1170742
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "Civilized" http://smartdefine.org/civilized/definitions/1170742 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, Civilized, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/civilized/definitions/1170742>.
MLAWordNet. "Civilized" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/civilized/definitions/1170742>
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