📚 Epicurean, noun. 🔉 /ˌɛpɪkjʊ(ə)ˈriːən/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: A disciple or student of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. ❗️ Examples: 1. They lift the curtain on a hitherto unknown community of philosophical debate among Epicureans and with other schools. 2. He was dealing with ‘certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics’. 3. Other schools of thought - the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Sceptics - dominated the philosophical stage, and the sciences developed separately from philosophy and became the domain of specialists. 4. But then, legitimate or not, this kind of appeal to nature runs through almost all of ancient ethics: it can be traced in the moral theories of Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics, among others. 5. By these three virtues we ascend to philosophize in that celestial Athens where Stoics and Peripatetics and Epicureans, by the light of eternal truth, join ranks in a single harmonious will. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic