Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
philosoph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A philosophaster; a philosopher.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of the leading
philosophers orintellectuals of the 18th century FrenchEnlightenment . - noun pejorative an incompetent philosopher; a
philosophaster .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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At eleven, Monsieur Vigo and I were talking "philosophe" over a wonderful breakfast under the awning, as we dropped down between the forest-lined shores of the Ohio.
The Crossing 1904
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'' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]].
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'' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]].
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'' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]].
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'' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]].
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According to the 19th-century food philosophe Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, discovering a new dish "does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
A Chef Opens His Recipe Box Aram Bakshian Jr. 2012
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I swear, I could sit and read her all day, this frail philosophe, sounded see-mone vey.
Three Women Con Chapman 2011
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Long before reading Cass Sunstein as a risk-expert, I read him as a jurisprudential philosophe.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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