ぶんめい
Meanings
Noun
1. civilization; civilisation; culture
It was humans who supported the civilization of that time.
2. Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)
Pitch accent
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んめい
Composed of
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
Used in vocabulary (26 in total)
material civilization; material civilisation
ancient civilization; ancient civilisation
civilized person; civilized people
Examples (21 in total)
Love is the miracle of civilization.
Civilization stopped advancing.
The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.
It was humans who supported the civilization of that time.
The progress of civilization is very rapid.
Imagination is the root of all civilization.
The nineteenth century was the age of the white man's civilization.
Civilization is now threatened by nuclear war.
It was the triumph of civilization over force.
That is a common way of thinking in early civilizations.
European civilization had its birth in these lands.
Civilization is even changing the lives of insects.
Our civilization has already reached that stage.
It is a tactic that was often adopted in the era of the old civilization.
The opening of the country had a great influence on Japanese civilization.
The Romans tried to civilize the ancient Britons.
Oil has played an important part in the progress of civilization.
I learned many things about Greek culture.
If it were not for electricity, our civilized life would be impossible.
Our mode of life has changed since the introduction of European civilization.
Though the Incas built up a great civilization, they had no system of writing.