Country Dictionary

formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech

"I hope we can treat each other with civility and respect"

Another way to say polite. Mostly used by bitchy, stuck up people who think they are much better than others. 99% of the time they are not.

Stuck-up snob: I will act civil to them tonight.
Person: You mean polite?

An ambiguous term often used to denote more complex societies but sometimes used by anthropologists to describe any group of people sharing a set of cultural traits.

Scholars agree that political, social, economic, and technological phenomena are indicators of civilization.

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i just picked up some fresh nike's at CiVil.

A fluid definition that can mean to be proper and polite even in an argument and suddenly sprouting insults.

Person 1: And that is why i dislike that characters development
Person 2: Look at us having a heated debate. We’re growing as people
Person 1: yeah but u gay boi
Person 2: wtf happened to being civil
Person 1: This is the new meaning of civil. We changed the definition

the making of something civilized

to take something uncivilized n make it civilized.

this black village is savage so im civilizing it

A collection of generally ignorant humanoids led and driven by their individual biological-sociological spiritual and psychological needs.

Andrea could no longer function within the constraints of civilation and committed suicide.