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Definition and meaning of philistin

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philistin (n.prop.)

1.membre d'un peuple égéen qui a établi l'ancienne Philistie autour du 12ème siècle avant JC.

philistin (adj.)

1.de l'ancienne Philistie, de sa culture ou de ses habitants.

2.ignorant, suffisant, indifférent ou hostile aux valeurs artistiques et culturelles

3.dépourvu de culture intellectuelle.

philistin (n.m.)

1.personne qui a un grand penchant pour les possessions matérielles.

2.(péjoratif, argotique ou populaire;figuré;littéraire)personne de goût vulgaire et prosaïque, insensible aux arts et aux nouveautés.

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definition of philistin (Littré)

Synonyms

philistin (adj.)

béotien, inculte

philistin (n.m.)

matérialiste

philistin (nominal)

béotien, bourgeois, profane, trivial, vulgaire

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philistin (adj.)

Philistie - philistin[Dérivé]




philistin (n. m.) [péjoratif, argotique ou populaire , figuré , littéraire]


philistin (n. m.)


philistin (n. m.)



Le Littré (1880)

PHILISTIN (s. m.)[fi-li-stin]

1. Nom d'un peuple qui occupait une grande partie de la terre promise, lors de l'arrivée des Israélites.

Fig. Il va faire la guerre aux Philistins (par allusion à la mâchoire d'âne dont Samson s'arma contre les Philistins), il se tient la mâchoire, il tient sa mâchoire appuyée sur sa main ; c'est une manière de dire à quelqu'un qu'il est un âne.

2. Fig. Se dit, parmi les étudiants allemands, de toutes les personnes étrangères aux universités, et particulièrement des marchands (avec un p minuscule).

Vous n'êtes, ne fûtes et ne serez jamais que ce que les étudiants allemands appellent un philistin, et les artistes français un bourgeois (TH. GAUTIER dans Revue des Deux-Mondes, t. XIX, p. 889, 1847)

À propos, qu'est-ce qu'un philistin ? autrefois, en Grèce, il s'appelait béotien ; on le nomme cockney en Angleterre, épicier ou Joseph Prud'homme à Paris, et les étudiants d'Allemagne lui ont conféré l'appellation de philistin (L. DE NEUVILLE dans Excentricités du langage.)

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