philosopher
noun
[ fɪˈlɒsəfə ]
• a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline.
Similar:
thinker,
theorist,
theorizer,
theoretician,
philosophizer,
metaphysicist,
metaphysician,
epistemologist,
dialectician,
logician,
speculator,
hypothesizer,
seeker after truth,
dreamer,
scholar,
intellect,
intellectual,
learned person,
sage,
wise man,
Solomon,
guru,
pundit,
Origin:
Middle English: from a variant of Old French philosophe, via Latin from Greek philosophos ‘lover of wisdom’, from philein ‘to love’ + sophos ‘wise’.
