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philosopher

/fəˈlɑsəfɚ/ noun B1
  1. A lover of wisdom.
  2. A student of philosophy.
  3. A scholar or expert engaged in or contributing to philosophical inquiry.

Plural philosophers

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I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 113 · C1
He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 105 · B2
He had contemplated danger with a smile, and when wounded had exclaimed with the great philosopher, “Pain, thou art not an evil.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 240 · C1
With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of a sensualist below, the man must have started with great capacities for good or for evil.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 24 · C1

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