anaxagoras

1. 1.

   a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)

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Other forms of anaxagoras

plural

anaxagorases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anaxagoras

What does anaxagoras mean?

anaxagoras means "a presocratic Athenian philosopher who maintained that everything is composed of very small particles that were arranged by some eternal intelligence (500-428 BC)".

How many syllables are in anaxagoras?

anaxagoras has 5 syllables: a-nax-a-go-ras. The stress falls on "a".

Is anaxagoras a common word?

anaxagoras is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.