philistine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.

   “Then the lords of the Philiſtines gathered them together, for to offer a great ſacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce; for they ſaid, Our god hath deliuered Samſon our enemy into our hand.”

2. isim An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.

   “In very truth what could poor old Abbot Hugo do? A frail old man; and the Philistines were upon him,—that is to say, the Hebrews.”

3. isim In German universities: a person not associated with the university; a non-academic or non-student; a townsperson.
4. isim Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“a person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes”).

   “It is Shakespearean, you Philistine!”

5. sıfat Originating from ancient Philistia; of or pertaining to the ancient Philistines.
6. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes”).

   “[Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine.”

7. isim A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

   “Not only was he [Heinrich Heine] not one of Mr. [Thomas] Carlyle's "respectable" people, he was profoundly disrespectable; and not even the merit of not being a Philistine can make up for a man's being that.”

8. sıfat Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

   “[Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine.”