Usually means: Advanced student in a university.
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  2. sophister: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. sophister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Sophister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sophister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sophister: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ noun:  A sophist.
▸ noun:  (dated, UK, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.

Similar:
sophist, sophisticator, sophisticate, philosophizer, symposiast, pseudologist, savant, sciolist, theologaster, schemist, more...

Opposite:
unsophisticated, naive, simple, inexperienced

Phrases:
senior sophister, more...

Adjectives:
old, crafty, senior, acute, junior, bold, cunning, captious, sharp, witty, subtle

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Similar:
sophist, sophisticator, sophisticate, philosophizer, symposiast, pseudologist, savant, sciolist, theologaster, schemist, more...

Opposite:
unsophisticated, naive, simple, inexperienced

Phrases:
senior sophister, more...

Adjectives:
old, crafty, senior, acute, junior, bold, cunning, captious, sharp, witty, subtle



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