civilizing
Meaning of civilizing
verb
- To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
- 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.
- To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
Information about civilizing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of civilizing
civ-i-liz-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- civilizing is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
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