Associations to the word «Civilize»
Noun
- Egyptian
- Effort
- Islam
- Notion
- Hero
- Ambition
- Attempt
- Duty
- Southeast
- Progress
- Nationalist
- Regime
- Habit
- Romans
- Belief
- Asia
- Ritual
- Spaniard
- Wisdom
- Impulse
- American
- Pursuit
- Bloom
- Congo
- Christian
- Inhabitant
- Society
- Vietnam
- Greek
- Policy
- Patron
- Agriculture
- People
- Reservation
- Agent
- Norm
- Power
- Conversion
- Teaching
- Idea
- Virtue
- World
- Objective
- Self
- Nature
- Vii
- Liberty
- Conquest
- Western
- Assumption
- France
- Greece
- Discourse
- Economic
- French
- Spanish
- Reform
- Improvement
- Conviction
- Manner
- Protestant
- Spread
- Historian
- Cult
Adjective
Wiktionary
CIVILIZE, verb. Alternative spelling of civilise
Dictionary definition
CIVILIZE, verb. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry".
CIVILIZE, verb. Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized".
Wise words
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.