Library / English Dictionary

PLURALIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pluralist" is a kind of...):

liberal; liberalist; progressive (a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties)

Derivation:

pluralism (a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pluralist" is a kind of...):

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

Derivation:

pluralism (the doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pluralist" is a kind of...):

churchman; cleric; divine; ecclesiastic (a clergyman or other person in religious orders)

Derivation:

pluralism (the practice of one person holding more than one benefice at a time)

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