DIOGENES

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• DIOGENES (noun)
  The noun DIOGENES has 1 sense:

1. an ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC)

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

• DIOGENES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient Greek philosopher and Cynic who rejected social conventions (circa 400-325 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, in the Diogenes Club, for example.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From year’s end to year’s end he takes no other exercise, and is seen nowhere else, except only in the Diogenes Club, which is just opposite his rooms.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, so distorted were their features that, save for his black beard and stout figure, we might have failed to recognise in one of them the Greek interpreter who had parted from us only a few hours before at the Diogenes Club.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)