SOCRATES

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

1. ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)

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

• SOCRATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Athenian (a resident of Athens)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Derivation:

Socratic (of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching)

 Context examples 

Wherein he agreed entirely with the sentiments of Socrates, as Plato delivers them; which I mention as the highest honour I can do that prince of philosophers.

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

If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell, his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative young stork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly, the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus; and was told, that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together: a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.

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