Usually means: Philosophers before Socrates, early thinkers.
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  1. pre-Socratic: Merriam-Webster
  2. pre-Socratic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pre-Socratic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pre-Socratic: Vocabulary.com
  5. pre-Socratic: Wordnik
  6. pre-Socratic: Wiktionary
  7. pre-Socratic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pre-Socratic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pre-Socratic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pre-socratic: Dictionary.com
  11. Pre-Socratic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. pre-socratic: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pre-socratic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pre-Socratic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pre-Socratic)

adjective:  (historical) Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).
noun:  (historical) Any of the pre-Socratic philosophers, viz. Thales (circa 624–546 BCE), Anaximander (circa 610–546 BCE), Anaximenes (circa 585–525 BCE), Pythagoras (circa 576–495 BCE), Xenophanes (circa 570–480 BCE), Heraclitus (circa 535–475 BCE), Parmenides (early-5ᵗʰ century BCE), Anaxagoras (circa 500–428 BCE), Empedocles (circa 490–430 BCE), and Democritus (circa 460–370 BCE).

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