PHILOSOPHER

noun Etymology: Middle English philosophe, philosophre, from Anglo-French, from Latin philosophus, from Greek philosophos, from phil- + sophia wisdom, from sophos wise Date: 14th century 1. a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment ; scholar , thinker, a student of philosophy, 2. a person whose philosophical perspective makes meeting trouble with equanimity easier, an expounder of a theory in a particular area of experience, one who philosophizes