civilisation

noun
/ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/UK/ˌsɪv.ɪ.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilise + -ation or civil + -isation.

  1. borrowed from civilisation

Definitions

  1. UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Commonwealth spelling…

    UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Commonwealth spelling of civilization.

    • From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at civilisation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at civilisation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at civilisation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA