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ANAXIMANDER

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Overview

ANAXIMANDER (noun)
  The noun ANAXIMANDER has 1 sense:

1. a presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)play

  Familiarity information: ANAXIMANDER used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


ANAXIMANDER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A presocratic Greek philosopher and student of Thales who believed the universal substance to be infinity rather than something resembling ordinary objects (611-547 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)


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