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Plural of civilization

regular plural

The plural of civilization is civilizations.

Forms of civilization

Singularcivilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Pluralcivilizations
Countablecountable and uncountable

Civilizations in a sentence

  • But civilizations, like the penis, rise and fall, and when the towers and battlements crumble into the earth, they return to the embrace of the Great Mother.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...
  • Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.From the entry outer space
  • Ancient civilizations told time at night by the passage of stars.From the entry tell time
  • Let us think of an ethical scale for civilizations in the same spirit as the Kardashev scale.2012, John R. Shook, Liz Stillwaggon Swan, Transformers and Philosophy: More than Meets the Mind, Open Court, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry Kardashev scale
  • Also, societies cannot be dichotomized into hunter-gatherer bands and agricultural civilizations.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 49. From the entry dichotomize

Meaning of civilization

  1. noun 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. noun Human society, particularly civil society.
  3. noun The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.

Full definition of civilization

Questions about the plural of civilization

What is the plural of civilization?
The plural of civilization is civilizations.
Is civilization countable?
Civilization is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: civilization (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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