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peripatetic

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪk/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aceeiipprttStarts with PEnds with C0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. traveling especially on foot

Word origin

From French péripatétique, from Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περιπατητικός (peripatētikós, “given to walking around”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “to walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) (English peri-)+ πατέω (patéō, “to walk”).

Used in a sentence

  • After peripatetic upbringing that took her from America to Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium and England, [Mary-Kay] Wilmers read French and Russian at Oxford.
  • The true peripatetic school.
  • Demetreius of Phalerum, a peripatetic philosopher of the fourth century B.C., wrote an amatory treatise entitled Eroticus - no longer, however, extant.

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