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APHORIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aphorist mean?
• APHORIST (noun)
The noun APHORIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
Familiarity information: APHORIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("aphorist" is a kind of...):
intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)
Derivation:
aphorism (a short pithy instructive saying)
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