different between civilization vs cultural

English

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Alternative forms

• civilisation (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from French civilisation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?.la??ze?.??n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?s?v.?.l?e?zæ?.??n]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?v.?.l??ze?.??n/

Noun

civilization (countable and uncountable, plural civilizations)

1. 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.
2. (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.

3. The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

4. The state or quality of being civilized.

5. (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.

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 living

Derived terms

Related terms

• civilize

Translations

Proper noun

civilization

1. 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 World

Translations

References

• civilization in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• civilization in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• civilization at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "civilization" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 57.
• civilization in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.

English

Etymology

From culture +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?lt?????l/

Adjective

cultural (comparative more cultural, superlative most cultural)

1. Pertaining to culture.

Derived terms

Translations

Asturian

Adjective

cultural (epicene, plural culturales)

1. cultural

Related terms

• cultura

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kul.tu??al/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

cultural (masculine and feminine plural culturals)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• culturalment
• intercultural
• multicultural
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cultural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cultural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cultural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• culturalmente
• sociocultural

Related terms

• cultura

Further reading

• “cultural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• culturau (Gascon)

Adjective

cultural m (feminine singular culturala, masculine plural culturals, feminine plural culturalas)

1. cultural

Derived terms

• pluricultural

Related terms

• cultura

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuwtu??aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku?tu??a?/
• Hyphenation: cul?tu?ral

Adjective

cultural m or f (plural culturais, comparable)

1. Pertaining to culture; cultural.

Inflection

Derived terms

• culturalmente
• intercultural
• sociocultural

Further reading

• “cultural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From French culturel.

Adjective

cultural m or n (feminine singular cultural?, masculine plural culturali, feminine and neuter plural culturale)

1. cultural

Declension

Derived terms

• anticultural
• culturaliza

Spanish

Etymology

cultura +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kultu??al/, [kul?.t?u??al]
• Hyphenation: cul?tu?ral

Adjective

cultural (plural culturales)

1. (relational) culture; cultural (of or relating to culture)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cultura
• culturar

References

• “cultural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.