Usually means: Opponents of culture and arts.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Philistines:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. philistines: Merriam-Webster
  2. Philistines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Philistines, philistines: Vocabulary.com
  4. Philistines, philistines: Wordnik
  5. philistines: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Philistines, philistines: Wiktionary
  7. Philistines: Dictionary.com
  8. philistines: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Philistines (disambiguation), Philistines: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Philistines: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Philistines: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philistines: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philistines: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philistines: Easton Bible
  2. Philistines: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Philistines: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philistines: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See philistine as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Philistines)

noun:  an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia.
noun:  a people who once occupied the south-western part of Canaan.

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