Etymology

philosophe

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Today it means: Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment. Full definition →

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  1. French · borrowed fromphilosophe“philosopher”
  2. English todayphilosophe

Borrowed from French philosophe (“philosopher”).

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