thinker
pronunciation
How to pronounce thinker in British English:
UK [ˈθɪŋkə(r)]
How to pronounce thinker in American English:
US [ˈθɪŋkər]
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- Noun:
- an important intellectual
- someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)
Word Origin
- thinker (n.)
- "one who has cultivated the powers of thought," mid-15c., agent noun from think (v.).
Example
- 1. You are the only thinker in your universe .
- 2. I think strauss was a very important and profound thinker .
- 3. Statement and portrait together form a single image of a thinker .
- 4. The fiery german thinker hated the bourgeois life and looked to communism to destroy it .
- 5. Picasso is nothing if not a thinker .