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sapients

sapients is the plural of sapient.

Meaning of sapient

Noun

sapient (plural sapients)

  1. (archaic except humorous) A wise person; a sage.
    • "She canna do that," said another sapient of the same profession— […]1827, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Chronicles of the Canongate; […], volume I (The Two Drovers), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, pages...
  2. (broadly) An intelligent, self-aware being.
    • Every since Trausti had shown him the X-rays, Leif had a theory that Halla Dannto was of non-Earth origin. It seemed to him a possibility that the Cold War Corps of March might have contacted hitherto unknown sapients on some just discovered interstellar planet, and were using them in the cold war...1960, Philip José Farmer, chapter 6, in A Woman a Day (A Galaxy Magazine Prize Science Fiction Selection; Galaxy Novel; number 43; Beacon Book; number 291), New York, N.Y.: Beacon Books, page 30
  3. A human being of the species Homo sapiens.

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Questions about sapients

What is sapients the plural of?
Sapients is the plural of sapient.

Words near sapients in the dictionary

  1. sapientize
  2. sapientized
  3. sapientizes
  4. sapientizing
  5. sapiently
  6. sapients
  7. Sapienza
  8. Sapienzas
  9. sapin-sapin
  10. sapinda
  11. sapindaceous

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