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PLATO
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German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Czech (Platnéř)
German, Jewish (Ashkenazic), and Czech (Platnéř) : occupational name for an armorer (see Blattner).English : occupational name for a plate maker, from a Middle English agent derivative of Old French platon ‘metal plate’. Compare Platten.
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Greek
Broad.
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Greek, Spanish
Broad Shouldered
Female
Greek
(Ἀθήνη) Greek myth name of the goddess of wisdom. Plato fancifully derived her name from a-theo-noa, ATHENE means "mind of God," but the true meaning is unknown. Her Roman name is Minerva ("intellect").
Male
Greek
(Πλάτων) Greek name derived from the word platys, PLATON means "broad, flat; plateau."
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Australian, French, Greek
Broad; Broad Shouldered
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : diminutive of Platt 1.English (Norfolk) : metonymic occupational name for a platemaker, from Old French platon ‘metal plate’.
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English
English : unexplained.German : possibly a variant of Platow.
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Biblical
A crown.
Boy/Male
French American German Swedish
Royal staff.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Star
Girl/Female
Biblical
Passing over; being angry; being with young.
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Unbeatable
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English American
From the sandy ford.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit, Traditional
Dharma Eyed
Girl/Female
Tamil
Sarovar, Type of Shakti
Girl/Female
American, British, English
Valiant Fighter; Brave Warrior; Nickname
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English
English : patronymic from the Biblical personal name Job.
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adv.
In a Platonic manner.
n.
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
n.
A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
a.
Alt. of Platonical
n.
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.
n.
An elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.
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A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.
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A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
n.
One who Platonizes.
a.
Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
n.
Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
n.
Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
v. i.
To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
n.
Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Platonize
imp. & p. p.
of Platonize
v. t.
To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
v. i.
To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
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One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato.
n.
The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.