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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, noun [L. Philistinus, Heb. Phlishth[=i], pl. Phlishth[=i]m.]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
2. Uncultured; commonplace.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Philistine
adjective
1: of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the Philistines
2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values [syn: {anti-intellectual}]
noun
1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: {lowbrow}]
2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "Philistine": Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character, arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal-minded, case-hardened, churl, clown, common, commonplace, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, deceived, earthly, earthy, epicier, flinty, formalist, functionally illiterate, general, grammarless, groundling, guttersnipe, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heathen, high-camp, homely, homespun, hoodwinked, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, ill-educated, illiterate, impervious, indurated, insensitive, inured, kitschy, led astray, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp, lowbrow, material, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class type, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, model child, mucker, mundane, nonintellectual, nouveau riche, ordinary, organization man, pachydermatous, pagan, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, plebeian, pop, popular, precisian, precisianist, profane, proof against, public, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, secular, sheep, square, steeled against, steely, stony, teenybopper, temporal, terrestrial, thick-skinned, trimmer, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unspiritual, unstudious, untaught, untutored, upstart, vernacular, vulgarian, vulgarist, worldly, yes-man, yokel
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "philistine": Babbitt, Boeotian, barbarian, boeotian, boob, boor, boorish, boring, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, commercial, commonplace, crass, dull, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, materialist, materialistic, middlebrow, narrow-minded, prosaic, tasteless, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, untutored, vulgarian, yahoo
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PHILISTINE, noun One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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