Definitions for civilized
Overview of verb civilize
The verb civilize has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. 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")
2. 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? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) civilized, civilised
(having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world")
2. 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")
