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philomath

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɪləmæθ/Part of speech nounSorted ahhilmoptStarts with PEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a lover of learning

Word origin

First indubitably attested ante 1643 (perhaps antedated to 1611); from the Ancient Greek φιλομαθής (philomathḗs, “fond of learning”), from φίλος (phílos, “loving”) + μάθη (máthē, “learning”), from μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”); compare opsimath, philomathematic, and polymath.

Used in a sentence

  • Jerman for twenty years past had been the author of a Quaker almanac, and had for about the same time been engaged in a fierce almanac warfare with Jacob Taylor, a philomath and a printer of Friends’ books.
  • "The success of an almanac depended upon the appeal of the "philomath"-the resident astrologer who did the writing and predicting."

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