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# civilised

«civilised» in Mova's school dictionary: **Living in an organised society with laws, good manners…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more civilised, most civilised) (British spelling of civilized)

### meaning for a pupil

Living in an organised society with laws, good manners, towns and government, not wild or rough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilised/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, people become more civilised as they gain kings, queens and cities

### examples

- Many countries are civilised and have schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilised/#x1)
- As people grew more civilised, they had kings and queens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilised/#x2)
- Good manners are part of being civilised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilised/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «civilised» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilised/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.