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Aristotle

[ ar-uh-stot-l ]

noun

  1. 384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.


aristotle

1

/ ˈæɪˌɒə /

noun

  1. a bottle
  2. old-fashioned.
    the buttocks or anus
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Aristotle

2

/ ˈæɪˌɒə /

noun

  1. Aristotle384 bc322 bcMGreekPHILOSOPHY: philosopherEDUCATION: teacherWRITING: author 384–322 bc , Greek philosopher; pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Peripatetic school at Athens; author of works on logic, ethics, politics, poetics, rhetoric, biology, zoology, and metaphysics. His works influenced Muslim philosophy and science and medieval scholastic philosophy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Aristotle

3

/ ˈæɪˌɒə /

noun

  1. a prominent crater in the NW quadrant of the moon about 83 kilometres in diameter
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Aristotle

/ ăĭ-ŏ′l /

  1. Greek philosopher and scientist who wrote about virtually every area of knowledge, including most of the sciences. Throughout his life he made careful observations, collected specimens, and summarized all the existing knowledge of the natural world. He pioneered the study of zoology, developing a classification system for all animals and making extensive taxonomic studies. His systematic approach later evolved into the basic scientific method in the Western world.

Aristotle

  1. One of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers , with a large influence on subsequent Western thought. Aristotle was a student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great . He disagreed with Plato over the existence of ideal Forms and believed that form and matter are always joined. Aristotle's many books include Rhetoric , the Poetics , the Metaphysics , and the Politics .
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Origin of Aristotle1

rhyming slang; in sense 2, shortened from bottle and glass arse
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Kostas Papazachos, a professor of seismology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, told broadcaster ERT that the authorities had to allow for the situation to continue for most or all of February.

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It's like the Golden Mean of Aristotle, you don't want one extreme or the other.

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Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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