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sivistää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • civilise verb To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
  • culture noun The shared customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life of a particular group of people.
  • sophisticate verb To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

Senses

sivistää is used for these senses in English:

  • civilise To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
  • culture (transitive) to increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)
  • sophisticate To make (something) more sophisticated; to develop, to refine. [from late 18th c.]
  • sophisticate (also, figuratively) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). [from early 15th c.]

civilise — full definition

  1. verb To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
  2. verb To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.
  3. verb To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.

culture — full definition

  1. noun The shared customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life of a particular group of people.
  2. verb To grow living cells, bacteria, or tissue under controlled conditions.

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