Philistine

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, n. [L. Philistinus, Heb.
     Phlishth[imac], pl. Phlishth[imac]m.]
     1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast
        region of southern Palestine.
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     2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift.
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     3. 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. [Recent] --M. Arnold.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, a.
     1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
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     2. Uncultured; commonplace.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Philistine
       adj 1: of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the
              Philistines
       2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and
          cultural values [syn: {anti-intellectual}]
       n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn:
            {lowbrow}]
       2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia
          around the 12th century BC

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  138 Moby Thesaurus words for "Philistine":
     Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character,
     arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher,
     cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal-minded,
     case-hardened, churl, clown, common, commonplace,
     compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
     deceived, earthly, earthy, epicier, flinty, formalist,
     functionally illiterate, general, grammarless, groundling,
     guttersnipe, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heathen, high-camp,
     homely, homespun, hoodwinked, hooligan, ill-bred fellow,
     ill-educated, illiterate, impervious, indurated, insensitive,
     inured, kitschy, led astray, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp,
     lowbrow, material, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class type,
     misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, model child, mucker,
     mundane, nonintellectual, nouveau riche, ordinary,
     organization man, pachydermatous, pagan, parrot, parvenu, peasant,
     pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, plebeian, pop, popular,
     precisian, precisianist, profane, proof against, public, ribald,
     rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, secular, sheep, square,
     steeled against, steely, stony, teenybopper, temporal, terrestrial,
     thick-skinned, trimmer, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned,
     unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated,
     unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned,
     unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled,
     unspiritual, unstudious, untaught, untutored, upstart, vernacular,
     vulgarian, vulgarist, worldly, yes-man, yokel
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "philistine":
     Babbitt, Boeotian, barbarian, boeotian, boob, boor, boorish,
     boring, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, commercial, commonplace,
     crass, dull, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, materialist, materialistic,
     middlebrow, narrow-minded, prosaic, tasteless, uncultivated,
     uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered,
     unread, unrefined, untutored, vulgarian, yahoo
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PHILISTINE, n.  One whose mind is the creature of its environment,
  following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment.  He is
  sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always
  solemn.