philosopher
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Noun (2)philosophers
- a specialist in philosophyType of scholar, scholarly personKinds Stoic, realist, existentialist, moralist, necessitarian, empiricist, nativist, yogi, ethicist, eclectic +14 moreExamples Plato, Rousseau, Aristotle, Hegel, Locke, James, Weil, Dietrich, Wittgenstein, Averroes +83 more
- a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimityType of actor, doer
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Translations
Noun person devoted to studying philosophy
- Spanish
- filósofo
- French
- philosophe
- German
- Philosoph
- Italian
- filosofo
- Portuguese
- filósofo
- Turkish
- felsefeci
- Russian
- фило́соф filósof
- Arabic
- فَيْلَسُوف faylasūf
- Chinese
- 哲学家 zhéxuéjiā
- Japanese
- 哲学者 tetsugakusha
27 more languages
- Dutch
- filosoof
- Polish
- filozof
- Swedish
- filosof
- Greek
- φιλόσοφος filósofos
- Korean
- 철학자 cheolhakja
- Indonesian
- filsuf
- Vietnamese
- triết gia
- Hungarian
- filozófus
- Portuguese (PT)
- filósofo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 哲學家 zhéxuéjiā
- Catalan
- filòsof
- Czech
- filozof
- Danish
- filosof
- Esperanto
- filozofo
- Estonian
- filosoof
- Finnish
- filosofi
- Georgian
- ფილოსოფოსი pilosoposi
- Hebrew
- פִילוֹסוֹף filosof
- Icelandic
- heimspekingur
- Latvian
- filozofs
- Norwegian
- filosof
- Romanian
- filozof
- Scottish Gaelic
- feallsanach
- Serbo-Croatian
- filozof
- Slovenian
- filozof
- Swahili
- mwanafalsafa
- Walloon
- filozofe
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. philosophre, F. philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. φιλόσοφος; φίλος loving + σοφός wise. Cf. Philosophy.
1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him.— Acts xvii. 18.
2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.
3. An alchemist. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
Philosopher's stone, an imaginary stone which the alchemists formerly sought as the instrument of converting the baser metals into gold.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54