The difference between Civilization and Culture
When used as nouns, civilization means an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people, whereas culture means the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.
Civilization is also proper_noun with the meaning: collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised, as savages or barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world.
Culture is also verb with the meaning: to maintain in an environment suitable for growth }}.
check bellow for the other definitions of Civilization and Culture
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Civilization as a noun:
An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
Examples:
"the Aztec civilization'"
"Western civilization'"
"Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization."
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Civilization as a noun (uncountable):
Human society, particularly civil society.
Examples:
"A hermit doesn't much care for civilization."
"I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family."
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Civilization as a noun:
The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
Examples:
"The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task."
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Civilization as a noun:
The state or quality of being civilized.
Examples:
"He was a man of great civilization."
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Civilization as a noun (obsolete):
The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
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Culture as a noun:
the arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation
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Culture as a noun:
the beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life
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Culture as a noun:
the conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.
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Culture as a noun (anthropology):
any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings
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Culture as a noun (botany):
cultivation
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Culture as a noun (microbiology):
the process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium
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Culture as a noun:
the growth thus produced
Examples:
"I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died."
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Culture as a noun:
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Culture as a noun (cartography):
the details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels
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Culture as a verb (transitive):
to maintain in an environment suitable for growth }}
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Culture as a verb (transitive):
to increase the artistic or scientific interest }}