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peripatetic

[ per-uh-puh-tet-ik ]

adjective

  1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.

    Synonyms: , ,

  2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
  3. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.


noun

  1. a person who walks or travels about.
  2. (initial capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school.

Peripatetic

1

/ ˌɛɪəˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the teachings of Aristotle, who used to teach philosophy while walking about the Lyceum in ancient Athens
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noun

  1. a student of Aristotelianism
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peripatetic

2

/ ˌɛɪəˈɛɪ /

adjective

  1. itinerant
  2. employed in two or more educational establishments and travelling from one to another

    a peripatetic football coach

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noun

  1. a peripatetic person
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ貹ˈٱپ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • i·貹·ٱi·· adverb
  • ··貹·ٱ·· [per-, uh, -p, uh, -, tet, -, uh, -siz-, uh, m], noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of peripatetic1

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin 貹ŧپܲ < Greek 貹ŧپó of Aristotle and his school, literally, walking about, equivalent to 貹ŧ- (verbid stem of 貹ٱî to walk about, equivalent to peri- peri- + 貹ٱî to walk; akin to path ) + -tikos -tic
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of peripatetic1

C16: from Latin 貹ŧپܲ, from Greek 貹ŧپDz, from peripatein to pace to and fro
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Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.

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Where “Doc” takes place on the quieter floors of a big city hospital, “The Pitt” — shot with peripatetic handheld cameras — is set in its noisiest part, the emergency room.

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For many athletes retirement means the end of a career; for the peripatetic Donovan, it’s become an opportunity to try out a whole bunch of new ones.

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But Horn, 68, an intellectually peripatetic Conceptualist, has an innate confidence, which may stem from the fact that she does not feel she fits in anywhere, personally or professionally, and never has.

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The release finds the singer a lifetime away from her peripatetic origins.

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