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# civilized

«civilized» 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 civilized, most civilized) (American spelling of civilised)

### 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/civilized/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a land is called civilized when it has laws and order, and cut off lands are not

### examples

- Is it a civilized country? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilized/#x1)
- In civilized countries there are no witches left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilized/#x2)
- The Land of Oz has never been civilized. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/civilized/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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