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means An organized society with cities, institutions, and shared rules complex enough to replace raw force with law, custom, and endless committee meetings.

from From Latin civis, 'citizen,' which gave civilis, 'relating to citizens or public life,' and civitas, 'city' or 'community of citizens.' The word traveled through French before settling into English in the 1700s, when Enlightenment writers used it to describe the opposite of savagery — a loaded, self-congratulatory distinction scholars still argue over.