philosopher

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)/    美 /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lover of wisdom.
  2. A student of philosophy.
  3. A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical inquiry.
    — Not much later—perhaps only two or three weeks later he has discovered meaning in them; he knows that they say "The cat sat on the hat." How this happens no one really knows, despite the efforts of philosophers and psychologists over two and a half millennia to study the phenomenon.
  4. A person who applies the principles of philosophy to the conduct of their life, as by acting calmly and rationally in the face of inevitable change. archaic
    — Then certaine Philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoikes, encountred him
  5. A student, scholar, or expert in any branch of knowledge, especially those branches studied prior to being considered part of pure science. archaic
  6. An alchemist. obsolete
    — Then thus conclude I, since that God of heaven Will not that these philosophers neven How that a man shall come unto this stone, I rede as for the best to let it gon.

词形变化

philosophers plural phylosopher alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
philosopher
上位词
person
下位词
ontologist metaphysician logician epistemologist ethicist aesthetician empiricist rationalist monist dualist pluralist realist idealist materialist existentialist nihilist Aristotelian Platonist Kantian Kuhnian Marxist Popperian Spinozist
衍生词
analytic philosopher antiphilosopher biophilosopher cyberphilosopher ecophilosopher ethnophilosopher fire philosopher foolosopher geophilosopher macaroni philosopher metaphilosopher natural philosopher neurophilosopher nonphilosopher philosopher by fire philosopheress philosopher king philosopher-king philosopher of fire philosopher's game philosophership philosopher's lamp philosopher's stone philosophers' stone philosopher's wool philosophess philosophress pseudophilosopher theophilosopher unphilosopher
相关词
misosopher philosophaster philosophe philosophical philosophical method philosophicide philosophizer philosophy scholar thinker reasoner arguer rhetorician sophist scientist author writer reason abstraction generality Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/62 § philosopher Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms

词源

From Middle English philosophre, from Anglo-Norman or Middle French philosophe, from Latin philosophus, from Ancient Greek φιλόσοφος (philósophos, literally “lover of wisdom”) + -er.
Credited as having been coined by Pythagoras to describe himself.
Displaced native Old English ūþwita.
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