PHILISTINE
\fˈɪlɪstˌa͡ɪn], \fˈɪlɪstˌaɪn], \f_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_s_t_ˌaɪ_n]\
Definitions of PHILISTINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
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a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC
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of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the Philistines
By Princeton University
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a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
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A bailiff.
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A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests.
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Uncultured; commonplace.
By Oddity Software
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A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
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A bailiff.
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A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests.
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Uncultured; commonplace.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One of the ancient inhabitants of South-western Palestine, enemies of the Israelites: name applied by German students to shopkeepers and others not conn. with the university: a person without liberal ideas, an uncultured person.
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PHILISTINISM.
By Daniel Lyons
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