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civilisations

civilisations is the plural of civilisation.

Meaning of civilisation

Noun

civilisation (countable and uncountable, plural civilisations)

  1. 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.1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 48

Questions about civilisations

What is civilisations the plural of?
Civilisations is the plural of civilisation.

Words near civilisations in the dictionary

  1. civilianness
  2. civilians
  3. civilisable
  4. civilisation
  5. civilisational
  6. civilisations
  7. civilise
  8. civilised
  9. civiliser
  10. civilisers
  11. civilises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civilisations (page history and authors); civilisation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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