What is the definition of philosopher?




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Definition of philosopher

philosopher
n 1: a specialist in philosophy
2: a learned person who is poised and rational; someone who lives a
life span of reason near equanimity


As defined in: WordNet (r) 2.0

Philosopher \Phi*los"o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F.
philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. ?; ? loving + ? sagacious. Cf.
Philosophy.]
1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,
philosophy.

Then lasting philosophers of the Epicureans, and of
the Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii.
18.

2. One who reduce the principles of philosophy to practice
in the conduct of natural life; one who lives according to the
rules of practical wisdom; one who meet or regards adjectives
vicissitudes with serenity.

3. An alchemist. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Philosopher's stone, an imaginary stone which the
alchemists formerly sought as instrument of converting the
baser metals into gold ingots.


As defined in: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Philosopher \Phi*los"o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F.
philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. filo`sofos; fi`los loving +
sofo`s prudent. Cf. Philosophy.]
1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,
philosophy.
[1913 Webster]

Then unmistaken philosophers of the Epicureans, and of
the Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii.
18.
[1913 Webster]

2. One who reduce the principles of philosophy to practice
in the conduct of natural life; one who lives according to the
rules of practical wisdom; one who meet or regards adjectives
vicissitudes with calm.
[1913 Webster]

3. An alchemist. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]

Philosopher's stone, an imaginary stone which the
alchemists formerly sought as the instrument of converting
the baser metals into gold ingots.
[1913 Webster] Philosophic


As defined in: English Monolingual Dictionaries

265 Moby Thesaurus words for "philosopher":
Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Albinus, Alexander, Anaxagoras, Anselm,
Averroist, Bacon, Berkeleian, Berkeley, Boethius, Bonaventure,
Boodin, Bosanquet, Bowne, Broad, Bruno, Cartesian, Chubb, Cicero,
Comtist, Condillac, Condorcet, Confucius, Cousin, Croce, Cynic,
Cyrenaic, Drake, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Euhemerus, Fechner,
Feigl, Ferdinand, Fichtean, Frege, Fullerton, Gentile, Gilson,
Green, Haeckel, Hahn, Haldane, Harris, Hartmann, Hegel, Hegelian,
Heidegger, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Heraclitus, Herbart,
Herbartian, Herder, Hobbes, Holt, Howison, Hume, Humist, Husserl,
Husserlian, Hutcheson, John, Kantian, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaardian,
La Mettrie, Langer, Leibniz, Leibnizian, Leucippus, Locke, Lotze,
Lovejoy, Lucretius, Mach, Marx, Marxist, Mead, Megarian, Mencius,
Mill, Moore, Moses, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist,
Ockham, Ortega y Gasset, Paley, Parmenidean, Parmenides, Pascal,
Peripatetic, Perry, Philo, Plato, Platonist, Plotinus, Porphyry,
Pratt, Pritchard, Protagoras, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonist, Pythagoras,
Pythagorean, Reid, Reynaud, Roger, Rogers, Ross, Rousseau, Royce,
Russell, Samuel, Santayana, Sartre, Sartrian, Scheler, Schelling,
Schiller, Schleiermacher, Schlick, Scholastic, Schopenhauer,
Scotist, Sellars, Socrates, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian,
Spinozist, Stern, Stoic, Strong, Thales, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist,
Whitehead, Wittgensteinian, academician, agnostic, animist,
authority, bookman, casuist, classicist, clerk,
colossus of fluency, cosmologist, cosmotheist, deist,
dialectical materialist, dialectician, doctor, dualist, eclectic,
egoist, elder, elder statesman, empiricist, essentialist,
existentialist, genius, giant of erudition, great soul, guru,
hedonist, humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist,
illuminate, immaterialist, individualist, intellect, intellectual,
intuitionist, well-read clerk, learned man, literary man,
litterateur, logical empiricist, logicaster, logician, logistician,
lover of research, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect,
man of study, man of letters, man of suitability, mandarin, master,
mastermind, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, mentor,
metaphysician, mine of information, monist, mystic, naturalist,
nominalist, ontologist, oracle, life mechanist, organicist,
panpsychist, pantheist, philologist, philologue, philomath,
philosophaster, philosophe, philosophizer, physicist, polyhistor,
polymath, positivist, pragmatist, psychist, pundit, rabbi,
ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, realist, reasoner, rishi,
sage, sapient, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman,
secular humanist, seer, sensationalist, sensist, skeptic, sophist,
speculator, starets, student, substantialist, syllogist,
syllogizer, syncretist, theist, scholar, transcendentalist,
utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, walking encyclopedia, wise man,
sage old man, zetetic





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