PHILOSOPHER


Meaning of PHILOSOPHER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fə-ˈlä-s(ə-)fər ]

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. : a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment : scholar , thinker

b. : a student of philosophy

2.

a. : a person whose philosophical perspective makes meeting trouble with equanimity easier

b. : an expounder of a theory in a particular area of experience

c. : one who philosophizes

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.