"philosophe" meaning in English

See philosophe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: philosophes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|philosophe|t=philosopher}} Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} philosophe (plural philosophes)
  1. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment.
    Sense id: en-philosophe-en-noun-TufR5q0F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 34 25 2 37 2
  2. (derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster. Tags: derogatory Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-philosophe-en-noun-5r8~f~pw Disambiguation of People: 1 99 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 34 25 2 37 2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "philosophe",
        "t": "philosopher"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "philosophes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "philosophe (plural philosophes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 25 2 37 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment."
      ],
      "id": "en-philosophe-en-noun-TufR5q0F",
      "links": [
        [
          "philosopher",
          "philosopher"
        ],
        [
          "intellectual",
          "intellectual"
        ],
        [
          "Enlightenment",
          "Enlightenment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 25 2 37 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 99",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:",
          "text": "Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is \"rationalist,\" but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster."
      ],
      "id": "en-philosophe-en-noun-5r8~f~pw",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "philosophaster",
          "philosophaster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "philosophe"
  ],
  "word": "philosophe"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "philosophe",
        "t": "philosopher"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "philosophes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "philosophe (plural philosophes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosopher",
          "philosopher"
        ],
        [
          "intellectual",
          "intellectual"
        ],
        [
          "Enlightenment",
          "Enlightenment"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:",
          "text": "Dynes, good superannuated philosophe that he is, is as anti-clerical as he is \"rationalist,\" but he surely shouldn't be taken seriously here.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "philosophaster",
          "philosophaster"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌfɪl.əˈzɒf/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "philosophe"
  ],
  "word": "philosophe"
}

Download raw JSONL data for philosophe meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (1c4b89b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.