English Dictionary

philistine

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/

名詞

軽蔑的

(derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

日本語の意味

教養がなく、学識のない人。 / 芸術や文化に対して理解や評価を示さず、むしろ反感を持つ人。 / 凡庸な、または庶民的な嗜好を持つ人。

Despite his wealth, his refusal to visit museums and read novels marked him as a philistine among his cultured friends.

裕福ではあったが、博物館に行かず小説を読もうともしないことで、彼は教養のない人だと教養のある友人たちの間で思われていた。

意味（1）

(derogatory) A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

[W]hen he [Christoph Friedrich Nicolai] wrote against [Immanuel] Kant's philosophy, without comprehending it; and judged of poetry as he judged of Brunswick mum, by its utility, many people thought him wrong. A man of such spiritual habilitudes is now by the Germans called a Philister, Philistine: Nicolai earned for himself the painful pre-eminence of being Erz-Philister, Arch-Philistine. … At present the literary Philistine seldom shows, never parades, himself in Germany; and when he does appear, he is in the last stage of emaciation.

philistines （ plural ）