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[ noun ] an intellectual being

Examples

"the great minds of the 17th century"

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

Again , Henley 's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus_Aurelius , whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian , comparable_to the patience expressed in Milton 's sonnet on his own blindness .

Related terms

intellectual think

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[ noun ] someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)
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