{
    "term": "philosopher",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who studies or writes about philosophy",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We studied the writings of the Greek philosopher Aristotle."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a talk by a distinguished moral philosopher"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the 17th-century Dutch philosopher Spinoza"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the great philosophers of ancient Greece"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a fine writer, historian and philosopher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Was Marx a political, social or historical philosopher?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whiteside was highly esteemed as an experimental philosopher."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["distinguished", "eminent", "famous"],
                "phrases": ["a philosopher of religion, science, etc."]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who thinks deeply about things",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He seems to be a bit of a philosopher."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many of her followers regarded her as a true philosopher."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈlɒsəfə(r)/",
                "audio": "ph/philosopher/philosopher__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fəˈlɑːsəfər/",
                "audio": "ph/philosopher/philosopher__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from a variant of Old French philosophe, via Latin from Greek philosophos ‘lover of wisdom’, from philein ‘to love’ + sophos ‘wise’."
}