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Plutarch

Syllables: Plu·tarch/ˈpluː.tɑːk/US/ˈplu.tɑɹk/

Plutarch proper noun: the classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.

Proper noun

Plutarch

  1. The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
    • I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.1878, John G. Morris, Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry, →OL, page 11
    • Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone.1895, Elbert Hubbard, Gladstone, →OL, page 100

Noun

Plutarch (plural Plutarchs)

  1. Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
    • Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.1895, O.A. Bierstadt, The Library of Robert Hoe, page 164

Plutarch meaning in Persian

Plutarch in Persian

Greek historian
پلوتارک plutârk, افلوطرخس eflutarxos

Forms of Plutarch

pluralPlutarchs

Origin of Plutarch

Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).

Words formed from Plutarch

Questions about Plutarch

What does Plutarch mean?
Plutarch means the classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
What is Plutarch in Persian?
Plutarch in Persian is پلوتارک (plutârk), افلوطرخس (eflutarxos). See Plutarch meaning in Persian.
What part of speech is Plutarch?
Plutarch can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Plutarch?
Plutarch is pronounced /ˈpluː.tɑːk/ (UK).

Words near Plutarch in the dictionary

  1. plusquamperfection
  2. plussed
  3. plusses
  4. plussing
  5. Pluta
  6. Plutarch
  7. Plutarchan
  8. Plutarchean
  9. Plutarchian
  10. Plutarchic
  11. plutarchies

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