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英英字典: civilized




Overview of verb civilize

The verb civilize has 2 senses


  • educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise -- (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry")

  • civilize, civilise -- (raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized")


Overview of adj civilized

The adj civilized has 2 senses


  • civilized, civilised -- (having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world")

  • civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite -- (marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society")

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