philistine
41philistine — n 1. middlebrow, Inf. lowbrow, Boeotian, conventionalist, conformist; bourgeois, materialist, capitalist; traditionalist, formalist, precisian; boor, lout, Goth, barbarian, yahoo. adj 2.Inf. lowbrow, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, rude;… …
42philistine — phil·is·tine …
43philistine — [ˈfɪlɪˌstaɪn] noun [C] showing disapproval someone who does not understand or care about serious art, literature, or music …
44philistine — phil•is•tine [[t]ˈfɪl əˌstin, ˌstaɪn, fɪˈlɪs tɪn, tin[/t]] n. 1) (sometimes cap.) a person who is lacking in or smugly indifferent to culture, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes 2) peo anh (cap.) a… …
45Philistine — /ˈfɪləstaɪn/ (say filuhstuyn) noun 1. one of the non Semitic people who inhabited the ancient country of Philistia. –adjective 2. of or belonging to the ancient Philistines. {Middle English, from Late Latin Philistīnī, plural, from Late Greek… …
46Philistine Temptress — Dalila (Delilah) …
47Samson Slaying a Philistine (Giambologna) — The sculpture of Samson Slaying a Philistine is the earliest of the great marble groups by Giambologna (1529 1608), sculptor to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany, and the only substantial work by the artist to have left Italy. It was commissioned …
48anti-intellectual philistine — nonintellectual onintellectual adj. not intellectual. Opposite of {intellectual}. [Narrower terms: {anti intellectual, philistine}; {lowbrow, uncultivated ] Also See {unscholarly}. [WordNet 1.5] …
49Timnath (Philistine city) — Timnath or Timnah was a Philistine city in Canaan that is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Judges. In , Samson goes to Timnath in order to find a wife. There, Samson rends a lion.The town of Timnath, Colorado in the United States is… …
50“Omnipresent Philistine, The“ — Essay (890 words); probably written in the spring of 1924. First published in the Oracle(May 1924); rpt. MW Largely a response to fellow amateur Paul Livingston Keil, the essay maintains that art should be judged only by aesthetic, not… …
