western civilization

1. 1.

   the modern culture of western Europe and North America

   “when Ghandi was asked what he thought of Western civilization he said he thought it would be a good idea”

   SynonymsWestern culture

   Broaderculture

Questions about western civilization

What does western civilization mean?

western civilization means "the modern culture of western Europe and North America".

What is another word for western civilization?

Close synonyms include Western culture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is western civilization a common word?

western civilization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.