Sophist
Meaning of Sophist
noun
a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.
Information about Sophist
- It is a name.
- The plural form of Sophist is: Sophists.
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Hyphenation of Sophist
Sophist
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- Sophist is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Sophist synonyms
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