Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who ruminates or muses on any subject; one who pauses to deliberate and consider.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
ruminates ; one whomeditates orreflects .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
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Examples
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Being a serious ruminator, I have thought a bit about this and have some suggestions as to why we are currently experiencing the Great Coin Famine of 2009. 1.
Where Have All the Nice Coins Gone? : Coin Collecting News 2009
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I think the title is trying to convey that the God of this story is a down-home ruminator.
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Being a serious ruminator, I have thought a bit about this and have some suggestions as to why we are currently experiencing the Great Coin Famine of 2009.
Where Have All the Nice Coins Gone? : Coin Collecting News 2009
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But if the term "man of letters" suggests a quaintly genteel, carpet-slippered ruminator, VSP (as he signed his pieces, and as his friends called him) didn't fit the image.
An Exquisite Slogger 2005
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But if the term "man of letters" suggests a quaintly genteel, carpet-slippered ruminator, VSP (as he signed his pieces, and as his friends called him) didn't fit the image.
An Exquisite Slogger 2005
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We have further the drunk being portrayed as a ruminator, albeit an intoxicated one, attempting to find a point of reference in the dilapidated territory of the Tenderloin, and these thought processes result in an act of bemused micturition.
Vollmann’s Aesthetic Realism : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006
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You are sounding more and more like a dictator rather than a negotiator, or ruminator, or whatever the hell young people in the political parties like to view themselves as these days.
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But the enforced solitary companionship with this ruminator of a fellow set him asking whether the godless dog he had picked up by the wayside was not incarnate another of the sins he had to expiate.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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But the enforced solitary companionship with this ruminator of a fellow set him asking whether the godless dog he had picked up by the wayside was not incarnate another of the sins he had to expiate.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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But the enforced solitary companionship with this ruminator of a fellow set him asking whether the godless dog he had picked up by the wayside was not incarnate another of the sins he had to expiate.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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