English-Thai Dictionary

philistine

N คน ไร้ วัฒนธรรม  kon-rai-wad-ta-na-tam

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PHILISTINE

Phi *lis "tine, n. Etym: [L. Philistinus, Heb. Phlishthi, pl. Phlishthim.]

 

1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.

 

2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng. ] [Obs. ] Swift.

 

3. A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent ] M. Arnold.

 

PHILISTINE

PHILISTINE Phi *lis "tine, a.

 

1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.

 

2. Uncultured; commonplace.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Philistine

Phil is tine |ˈfiləˌstēn, -ˌstīn ˈfɪləstin | ▶noun 1 a member of a non-Semitic (perhaps originally Anatolian ) people of southern Palestine in ancient times, who came into conflict with the Israelites during the 12th and 11th centuries bc . According to the Bible, the Philistines, from whom the country of Palestine took its name, came from Crete and settled the southern coastal plain of Canaan in the 12th century bc . 2 (usu. philistine ) a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them: [ as modifier ] : a philistine government. DERIVATIVES phil is tin ism |ˈfiləstēˌnizəm, fəˈlistə - |noun ORIGIN from French Philistin, via late Latin from Greek Philistinos, from Hebrew pĕlištī. Sense 2 arose as a result of a confrontation between the townspeople and the students in Jena, Germany, in the late 17th cent. ; a sermon on the conflict quoted: “the Philistines are upon you ” (Judges 16 ), which led to an association between the townspeople and those hostile to culture. See Palestine .

 

Oxford Dictionary

Philistine

Philistine |ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn | ▶noun 1 a member of a non-Semitic people of ancient southern Palestine, who came into conflict with the Israelites during the 12th and 11th centuries bc . The Philistines, from whom the country of Palestine took its name, were one of the Sea Peoples who, according to the Bible, came from Crete and settled the southern coastal plain of Canaan in the 12th century bc . 2 ( philistine ) a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts: [ as modifier ] : a philistine government. DERIVATIVES philistinism |-stɪnɪz (ə )m |noun ORIGIN from French Philistin, via late Latin from Greek Philistinos, from Hebrew pĕlištī. Sense 2 arose as a result of a confrontation between town and gown in Jena, Germany, in the late 17th cent. ; a sermon on the conflict quoted: ‘the Philistines are upon you ’ (Judges 16 ), which led to an association between the townspeople and those hostile to culture.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

philistine

philistine adjective a romantic visionary, persecuted by a philistine establishment: uncultured, lowbrow, anti-intellectual, uncultivated, uncivilized, uneducated, unenlightened, commercial, materialist, bourgeois; ignorant, crass, boorish, barbarian.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

philistine

philistine noun she was no philistine, but an artist herself: lowbrow, anti-intellectual, materialist, bourgeois; boor, ignoramus, lout, oaf, barbarian, primitive, savage, brute, yahoo, vulgarian. ▶adjective a philistine effort to destroy culture: crass, tasteless, uncultured, uncultivated, uneducated, untutored, unenlightened, unread, commercial, materialist, bourgeois, unsophisticated, unrefined; boorish, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, primitive, savage, brutish, loutish, oafish, uncivilized, uncouth, vulgar, coarse, rough.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

Philistine

Phil is tine /fɪ́lɪstìːn, fɪlɪ́st (ə )n |-stàɪn /名詞 C 1 ペリシテ人 〘古代Palestineの住民; 旧約聖書ではイスラエル人の敵とされる 〙.2 ｟非難して ｠〖時にp -〗凡俗な人 ; 俗物 ; (芸術などに無関心な )教養のない人 (!you ～ で呼びかけも可 ) .形容詞 1 ペリシテ (人 )の .2 〖時にp -〗｟非難して ｠教養のない ; 俗物の ; 実利的な .