adjective विशेषण

Philistine meaning in maithili

पलिस्तीनी

  • Pronunciation

    /ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/

  • Definition

    of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

    प्राचीन फिलिस्ती या ओकर संस्कृति या ओकर लोक के या संबंधित |

adjective विशेषण

Philistine meaning in maithili

पलिस्तीनी

  • Definitions

    1. Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes”).

    फिलिस्तीन के वैकल्पिक अक्षर-केस रूप (“अज्ञानी या अशिक्षित; विशेष रूप स॑, कला या संस्कृति के प्रति सराहना के कमी या विरोधी, आरू पैदल चलै वाला के स्वाद वाला”) ।

  • Examples:
    1. Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.

    2. Visitors to the area are strongly recommended to have a look around the castle, for even the most Philistine of wild water canoeists cannot fail to be impressed by the enormous armoury, fine paintings and wonderful furnishings that seem to outclass all other museums and castles in the North East.

    3. [Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine.

noun संज्ञा

Philistine meaning in maithili

पलिस्तीनी

  • Definitions

    1. A non-Semitic person from ancient Philistia, a region in the southwest Levant in the Middle East.

    मध्य पूर्व के दक्षिण पश्चिम लेवेंट के एक क्षेत्र प्राचीन फिलिस्टिया के एक गैर-यहूदी व्यक्ति |

  • Examples:
    1. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

    2. Then the lords of the Philiſtines gathered them together, for to offer a great ſacrifice vnto Dagon their god, and to reioyce; for they ſaid, Our god hath deliuered Samſon our enemy into our hand.

  • 2. An opponent (of the speaker, writer, etc); an enemy, a foe.

    एकटा विरोधी (वक्ता, लेखक आदिक); एकटा दुश्मन, एकटा दुश्मन।

  • Examples:
    1. In very truth what could poor old Abbot Hugo do? A frail old man; and the Philistines were upon him,—that is to say, the Hebrews.

  • 3. Alternative letter-case form of philistine (“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”)

    फिलिस्तीन केरऽ वैकल्पिक अक्षर-केस रूप (“एक व्यक्ति जे अज्ञानी या अशिक्षित छै; विशेष रूप स॑, वू व्यक्ति जेकरा कला या संस्कृति केरऽ सराहना के कमी छै या ओकरऽ प्रति विरोधी छै, आरू जेकरा पैदल चलै वाला स्वाद छै”)

  • Examples:
    1. It is Shakespearean, you Philistine!

    2. "Oh, the Philistine! The boorish Philistine!" he murmured;

    3. Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.

    4. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines.

    5. Mr. [Matthew] Arnold has no patience with the middle-class ‘Philistines’ the dullards and haters of light, who care only for what is material and practical.

    6. Not only was he [Heinrich Heine] not one of Mr. [Thomas] Carlyle's "respectable" people, he was profoundly disrespectable; and not even the merit of not being a Philistine can make up for a man's being that.

    7. [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.