See philosophy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "philosophy",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "philosophies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"2": "philosophies"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Plato's writings have been used to teach philosophy, logic, maths, and other subjects."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Philosophy is the study of the nature of existence and truth: how things are and how they should be."
],
"id": "simple-philosophy-en-noun-0g04~sxO",
"raw_tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her education explains in part why she holds the political philosophies she does."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A philosophy is a set of beliefs that guide the actions of a group or individual."
],
"id": "simple-philosophy-en-noun-WSJWF3XE",
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɪˈlɒsəfi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɪˈlɑsəfi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-philosophy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "philosophy"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "philosophy",
"tags": [
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "philosophies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"2": "philosophies"
},
"expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
"name": "noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Plato's writings have been used to teach philosophy, logic, maths, and other subjects."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Philosophy is the study of the nature of existence and truth: how things are and how they should be."
],
"raw_tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Countable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her education explains in part why she holds the political philosophies she does."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A philosophy is a set of beliefs that guide the actions of a group or individual."
],
"raw_tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɪˈlɒsəfi/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɪˈlɑsəfi/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-philosophy.ogg",
"raw_tags": [
"Audio"
],
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "philosophy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for philosophy meaning in English (1.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-24 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (813e02a and ea19a0a). 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.