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Pythagoreans

Pythagoreans is the plural of Pythagorean.

Meaning of Pythagorean

Noun

Pythagorean (plural Pythagoreans)

  1. A follower of Pythagoras; someone who believes in or advocates Pythagoreanism.
    • Plato could still speak the language of archaic myth. He could speak it, because he was a Pythagorean, and myth was their technical language.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 268

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Questions about Pythagoreans

What is Pythagoreans the plural of?
Pythagoreans is the plural of Pythagorean.

Words near Pythagoreans in the dictionary

  1. Pythagorean trigonometric identities
  2. Pythagorean trigonometric identity
  3. Pythagorean triple
  4. Pythagorean triples
  5. Pythagoreanism
  6. Pythagoreans
  7. Pythagoric
  8. Pythagorical
  9. Pythagorically
  10. Pythagorician
  11. Pythagoricians

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