EPICURUS

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

1. Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

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

• EPICURUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)