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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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.
        [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 instrument of converting the
        baser metals into gold.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  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

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Γαλλικά vb.
     φιλοσοφώ

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la philosophor  1 s pres actv subj)
     n.
     1 (lb en originally) A lover of wisdom.
     2 A student of philosophy.
     3 A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical
  inquiry.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     n.
     1 (lb en originally) A lover of wisdom.
     2 A student of philosophy.
     3 A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical
  inquiry.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la philosophor  1 s pres actv subj)
     n.
     1 (lb en originally) A lover of wisdom.
     2 A student of philosophy.
     3 A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical
  inquiry.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Latin vb.
     (inflection of la philosophor  1 s pres actv subj)
     n.
     1 (lb en originally) A lover of wisdom.
     2 A student of philosophy.
     3 A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical
  inquiry.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Englanti n.
     filosofi

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  philosopher
     Engelska n.
     filosof

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  الفيلسوف

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  филосо́ф, философ
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/ 
  filozof

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfə/
  Philosoph , Philosophin 
   see: philosophers
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  
  φιλόσοφος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  filosofi
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/ 
  1. दार्शनिक, तत्त्वज्ञ
        "Gandhiji was a great philosopher."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  filozof, filozofske, filozofskih

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  1. bölcselô
  2. gondolkodó
  3. bölcs
  4. filozófus

From English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-ind ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  filsuf
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-ita ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  filosofo

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  哲学者
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  philosopher /filɔsəfər/
  filosoof, wijsgeer

From English-Norsk FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-nor ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  filosof
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  philosopher /fɪˈlɒsəfə/ 
    filozof

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  philosopher /filɔsəfər/
  filósofo

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  philosopher //fəˈlɑsəfəɹ// //fɪˈlɒs.ə.fə(ɹ)// 
  filosof
  person devoted to studying philosophy

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  philosopher /fɪlˈɒsəfˌə/
  1. filozof
  2. hayatını felsefe ve mantık üzerine düzenleyen kimse
  3. güçlükler karşısında filozof gibi kendine hâkim olabilen kimse. philosopher' stone. simyada iksir, başka madenleri altına çevir diği farzolunan tılsımlı taş.

From French-Breton FreeDict Dictionary (Geriadur Tomaz) ver. 0.2.7 :   [ freedict:fra-bre ]

  philosopher /filozofˈe/
  filozofiañ

From français-lietuvių kalba FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:fra-lit ]

  philosopher /fi.lɔ.zɔ.fe/ 
  filosofuoti

From français-português FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:fra-por ]

  philosopher /fi.lɔ.zɔ.fe/ 
  filosofar

From français-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:fra-swe ]

  philosopher /fi.lɔ.zɔ.fe/ 
  filosofera

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 哲学家,哲人;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 哲学家,哲人,思想家

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