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Definition: Civilise |
CiviliseVerb1. Train to be discriminative; as of taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry". 2. Make a country technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "civilise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
"Civilise" is a common misspelling or typo for: civilize, civilized. |
Synonyms: CiviliseSynonyms: civilize (v), cultivate (v), develop (v), educate (v), modernise (v), modernize (v), school (v), train (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Civilise |
| Non-English Usage: "Civilise" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (civilizes). |
| "Civilise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Civilise" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 92.31% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "civilise": re-civilise. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "civilise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 文明化 (civilised, Civilize, Civilized, Civilizing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | εκπολιτίζω (civilize, urbanize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | civilizzare (civilize), incivilire (civilize, grow civilized). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 개명하십시" (Civilize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivilisecay ทำให้มีความศิวิไลซ์ (civilize). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "civilise": civilised, civilises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-l-s-v" | |
-2 letters: civies, clevis. | |
-3 letters: ceils, civie, civil, evils, ivies, lives, slice, veils, vices. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cels, evil, ices, isle, leis, lice, lies, live, sice, veil, vice, vies, vile, vise. | |
-5 letters: cel, cis, els, ice, lei, lev, lie, lis, sec, sei, sel, sic, vie, vis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-l-s-v" | |
+1 letter: civilised, civilises, civilizes. | |
+2 letters: civilities, civilizers, incisively. | |
+3 letters: acclivities, declivities, inviolacies. | |
+4 letters: civilianizes, clavieristic, incivilities, indecisively, proclivities, relativistic, revivalistic. | |
+5 letters: acquisitively, distinctively, exclusivities, inscriptively, instinctively, selectivities, semicivilized, verticalities, victimologies, vivisectional, volcanicities, vulcanicities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 69 76 69 6C 69 73 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. ...- .. .-.. .. ... . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C i v i l i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0069 0076 0069 006C 0069 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3775887578758571 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, 중국 |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, 그리스 |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, ชาวเกาหลี |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, 타이 말, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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