Definition for Philosopher:

• One devoted to or versed in philosophy; one of a philosophic spirit; a wise man. Philosopher's stone, an imaginary substance which the alchemists formerly sought, as the instrument of converting the baser metals into pure gold.

Synonyms for Philosopher:

• n.

  •
  • thoughts.
  •highbrow (noun)
  • academician,
  • intelligentsia,
  • illuminato,
  • einsteins,
  • intelligentsias,
  • einstein,
  • whiz*,
  • academic,
  • academicians,
  • Illuminati,
  • brain*,
  • longhair,
  • literato,
  • bluestockings,
  • genius,
  • egghead,
  • philosopher,
  • bluestocking,
  • literati.
  •intellectual (noun)
  • doctor,
  • wizard,
  • braintruster,
  • wizards,
  • avant-gardes,
  • avant-garde.
  •interpreter (noun)
  • editor,
  • decoders,
  • decoder,
  • biographers,
  • analyst,
  • artist,
  • Exegete,
  • Expositor,
  • linguist,
  • commentator,
  • expositors,
  • Glossographer,
  • explicators,
  • Explicator,
  • exponent,
  • annotator,
  • spokesperson,
  • biographer,
  • speaker,
  • reviewer,
  • Paraphraser,
  • writer,
  • exegetes,
  • delegate.
  •logician (noun)
  • thales,
  • Ernst Cassirer,
  • Karl Marx,
  • Baruch Spinoza,
  • aristotle,
  • boethius,
  • St. Thomas Aquinas,
  • Martin Buber,
  • syllogist,
  • Soren Kierkegaard,
  • Arthur Schopenhauer,
  • sophists,
  • Jean Jacques Rousseau,
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein,
  • GWF Hegel,
  • William James,
  • Friedrich Schiller,
  • Friedrich Nietzsche,
  • Immanuel Kant,
  • George Berkeley,
  • epicurus,
  • Edmund Burke,
  • Bertrand Russell,
  • John Locke,
  • John Stuart Mill,
  • socrates,
  • Jean-Paul Sartre,
  • voltaire,
  • Marcus Aurelius,
  • plato,
  • Francis Bacon,
  • democritus,
  • Martin Heidegger,
  • St. Augustine,
  • solon,
  • Parmenides,
  • Thomas Hobbes.
  •pundit (noun)
  • bookworm,
  • buff,
  • cognoscenti,
  • expert,
  • professor,
  • learned ones,
  • cereb,
  • auger,
  • learned one,
  • teacher.
  •sage (noun)
  • consultant,
  • authority,
  • adept,
  • mandarin,
  • guide,
  • guru,
  • master.
  •savant (noun)
  • learner.
  •scholar (noun)
  • critic,
  • disciple,
  • gnome,
  • pupil,
  • schoolchild,
  • grind*,
  • bookish person,
  • augur,
  • person of letters,
  • tool.
  •theologian (noun)
  • divine,
  • ecclesiastic,
  • cleric,
  • clergy,
  • curate.
  •thinker (noun)
  • mind.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fool,
  • Hellenist.
  •
  • speculator.
  •champion
  • protector.
  •classicist
  • humanist.
  •leader
  • mastermind.
  •philosophy
  • philosophy,
  • yin and yang.
  •Other relevant words:
  • intellect,
  • brain,
  • Gownsman,
  • deist,
  • mahatma,
  • Philosophaster,
  • Hypothecator,
  • sustenance,
  • libertarian,
  • skeptic,
  • rabbi,
  • clerk,
  • dialectic,
  • sapient,
  • idealist,
  • logistician,
  • dreamer,
  • discerning,
  • metaphysics,
  • positivist,
  • existentialist,
  • rationalist,
  • scientist,
  • sapience,
  • green,
  • rationalizer,
  • Academist,
  • mentor,
  • sensationalist,
  • realist,
  • intelligent,
  • Yang,
  • herder,
  • discretion,
  • gentile,
  • Immaterialist,
  • mentalist,
  • knowledge,
  • broad,
  • peripatetic,
  • sagacity,
  • doyen,
  • philologue,
  • Hylotheist,
  • passionless,
  • porphyry,
  • wrangler,
  • mead,
  • mullah,
  • honest,
  • empiricist,
  • secular humanist,
  • yoga,
  • epicurean,
  • drink,
  • companionable,
  • Philosophe,
  • Metaphysician,
  • physicist,
  • cynic,
  • lexicographer,
  • schoolman,
  • bacon,
  • Ontologist,
  • spiritual,
  • oracle,
  • Philologer,
  • graduate,
  • prudence,
  • platonic,
  • animist,
  • scholastic,
  • litterateur,
  • Monist,
  • mystic,
  • Syncretist,
  • politic,
  • rational,
  • classicist,
  • logician,
  • Hylozoist,
  • Rishi,
  • John,
  • Sophister,
  • polymath,
  • syllogizer,
  • sense,
  • naturalist,
  • Polyhistor,
  • reasoner,
  • moralist,
  • Sensist,
  • egoist,
  • inner,
  • philosophizer,
  • sagacious,
  • philologist,
  • quixotic,
  • strong,
  • utilitarian,
  • Holt,
  • chaste,
  • individualist,
  • transcendentalist,
  • dualist,
  • solomon,
  • Philomath,
  • Yin,
  • starets,
  • master of arts,
  • elder,
  • eclectic,
  • colossus of knowledge,
  • timon of athens,
  • perspicacious,
  • Roger,
  • theist,
  • hedonist,
  • ethicist,
  • theorizer,
  • pragmatist,
  • flitch,
  • vitalist,
  • nestor,
  • essentialist,
  • yogi,
  • stern,
  • stipend,
  • virtuous,
  • sinologist,
  • cousin,
  • astute,
  • doyenne,
  • seer,
  • wise old man,
  • materialist,
  • learned person,
  • Nominalist,
  • hypothesizer,
  • keen,
  • perry,
  • lard,
  • dialectician,
  • Zetetic,
  • wisdom,
  • elder statesman,
  • statesman,
  • illuminate,
  • Dilettanti,
  • ghostly,
  • alcohol,
  • mechanist,
  • Learned man,
  • grammarian,
  • pantheist,
  • casuist,
  • Sinologue,
  • voluntarist,
  • judiciousness,
  • acute,
  • mill,
  • lexicologist,
  • connoisseur,
  • drake,
  • shrewd,
  • man of letters,
  • agnostic,
  • cosmologist,
  • walking encyclopedia,
  • whitehead,
  • philosophical,
  • ontology,
  • intuitionist,
  • munshi,
  • gymnosophist,
  • ratiocinator,
  • fellow.

Paraphrases for Philosopher:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    scholar.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    thinker, philosophy, theorist, theoretician.

Philosopher Sentence Examples:

• You're a great philosopher, my dear; I wish I were as wise as you.

• The quarrel of the poet and the philosopher has at no time been more in evidence than at present.

Hypernym for Philosopher:

• n.

  • person
    sir karl raimund popper, gymnosophist, existential philosopher, Karl Popper, empiricist, ethician, sophist, yogi, aesthetician, realist, pluralist, nativist, naturalist, scholastic, esthetician, epistemologist, existentialist, eclecticist, libertarian, eclectic, cynic, transcendentalist, Nominalist, existentialist philosopher, stoic, mechanist, ethicist, moralist, popper, pre-Socratic, necessitarian.

Hyponym for Philosopher:

• n.

  • person
    mortal, person, scholar, scholarly person, somebody, Bookman, soul, individual, student, someone.