Definition of philosopher

philosopher

n 1: a specialist in philosophy

2: a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a

life of reason with equanimity

As defined in: WordNet (r) 2.0

Philosopher \Phi*los”o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F.

philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. ?; ? loving + ? wise. Cf.

Philosophy.]

1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,

philosophy.

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of

the Stoics, encountered him. –Acts xvii.

18.

2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice

in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the

rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all

vicissitudes with calmness.

3. An alchemist. [Obs.] –Chaucer.

Philosopher’s stone, an imaginary stone which the

alchemists formerly sought as instrument of converting the

baser metals into gold.

As defined in: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Philosopher \Phi*los”o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F.

philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. filo`sofos; fi`los loving +

sofo`s wise. Cf. Philosophy.]

1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,

philosophy.

[1913 Webster]

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of

the Stoics, encountered him. –Acts xvii.

18.

[1913 Webster]

2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice

in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the

rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all

vicissitudes with calmness.

[1913 Webster]

3. An alchemist. [Obs.] –Chaucer.

[1913 Webster]

Philosopher’s stone, an imaginary stone which the

alchemists formerly sought as the instrument of converting

the baser metals into gold.

[1913 Webster] Philosophic

As defined in: English Monolingual Dictionaries

265 Moby Thesaurus words for “philosopher”:

Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Albinus, Alexander, Anaxagoras, Anselm,

Averroist, Bacon, Berkeleian, Berkeley, Boethius, Bonaventure,

Boodin, Bosanquet, Bowne, Broad, Bruno, Cartesian, Chubb, Cicero,

Comtist, Condillac, Condorcet, Confucius, Cousin, Croce, Cynic,

Cyrenaic, Drake, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Euhemerus, Fechner,

Feigl, Ferdinand, Fichtean, Frege, Fullerton, Gentile, Gilson,

Green, Haeckel, Hahn, Haldane, Harris, Hartmann, Hegel, Hegelian,

Heidegger, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Heraclitus, Herbart,

Herbartian, Herder, Hobbes, Holt, Howison, Hume, Humist, Husserl,

Husserlian, Hutcheson, John, Kantian, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaardian,

La Mettrie, Langer, Leibniz, Leibnizian, Leucippus, Locke, Lotze,

Lovejoy, Lucretius, Mach, Marx, Marxist, Mead, Megarian, Mencius,

Mill, Moore, Moses, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist,

Ockham, Ortega y Gasset, Paley, Parmenidean, Parmenides, Pascal,

Peripatetic, Perry, Philo, Plato, Platonist, Plotinus, Porphyry,

Pratt, Pritchard, Protagoras, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonist, Pythagoras,

Pythagorean, Reid, Reynaud, Roger, Rogers, Ross, Rousseau, Royce,

Russell, Samuel, Santayana, Sartre, Sartrian, Scheler, Schelling,

Schiller, Schleiermacher, Schlick, Scholastic, Schopenhauer,

Scotist, Sellars, Socrates, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian,

Spinozist, Stern, Stoic, Strong, Thales, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist,

Whitehead, Wittgensteinian, academician, agnostic, animist,

authority, bookman, casuist, classicist, clerk,

colossus of knowledge, cosmologist, cosmotheist, deist,

dialectical materialist, dialectician, doctor, dualist, eclectic,

egoist, elder, elder statesman, empiricist, essentialist,

existentialist, genius, giant of learning, great soul, guru,

hedonist, humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist,

illuminate, immaterialist, individualist, intellect, intellectual,

intuitionist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man,

litterateur, logical empiricist, logicaster, logician, logistician,

lover of learning, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect,

man of learning, man of letters, man of wisdom, mandarin, master,

mastermind, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, mentor,

metaphysician, mine of information, monist, mystic, naturalist,

nominalist, ontologist, oracle, organic mechanist, organicist,

panpsychist, pantheist, philologist, philologue, philomath,

philosophaster, philosophe, philosophizer, physicist, polyhistor,

polymath, positivist, pragmatist, psychist, pundit, rabbi,

ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, realist, reasoner, rishi,

sage, sapient, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman,

secular humanist, seer, sensationalist, sensist, skeptic, sophist,

speculator, starets, student, substantialist, syllogist,

syllogizer, syncretist, theist, thinker, transcendentalist,

utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, walking encyclopedia, wise man,

wise old man, zetetic

As defined in: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0