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philosophe

  • /ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/ UK

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Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”).

noun philosophes

  1. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
  2. derogatory An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster. Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is "rationalist," but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.

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@misc{philosophe_2026,
  title = {philosophe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/philosophe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}