civilizations
UK spellingcivilisations
- 1Plural of civilization.
The museum traces how distant civilizations traded goods across vast deserts.
Many early civilizations developed writing systems independently of one another.
Note
The plural belongs to the countable meanings of civilization: distinct organized cultures, or stages of social and technical development, which can be set side by side and compared. Civilization as human society at large takes no plural, and neither does the state of being civilized. So "the civilizations of the Andes" counts cultures, while "far from civilization" stays singular.
civilizations is a form of civilization
civilization, noun: An organized way of life shared across many communities, often a whole nation or people, or a particular social, political, or technical system or stage of development. Full entry
- Forms
- civilizationcivilizations plural
- Spelling
- civilization → civilizations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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