beschaving — meaning in English
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English meaning
- civilization noun A large, organised society with its own culture, institutions, and level of development, often spanning a nation or region.
Senses
beschaving is used for these senses in English:
- civilization 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.
- civilization (inherently emic, sometimes, capitalized) Collectively, those people and places 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. (Compare refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World.
civilization — full definition
- noun A large, organised society with its own culture, institutions, and level of development, often spanning a nation or region.
- noun Human society as a whole, especially in its organised, "civil" form.