thinker
IPA: θˈɪŋkɝ
noun
- One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
- An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
- (slang) The brain; the mind.
- (slang) A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
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Examples of "thinker" in Sentences
- The thinkers like to bethink.
- He is one of the seminal thinkers behind the Church.
- He was a powerful thinker, but an obscure and prolix writer.
- The majority of the thinkers in Baghdad were of Persian ethnicity.
- The philosopher from Stageira was the foremost thinker of the period.
- Among the key thinkers of this approach is the sociologist Max Weber.
- It parallelled the utilitarianism later developed by English thinkers.
- He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
- Each of the stories begins with an epigraph from a theoretical thinker.
- Cynicism in Rome was both the butt of the satirist and the ideal of the thinker.
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