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PLATO
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Greek, Spanish
Broad Shouldered
Boy/Male
Greek
Broad.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : unexplained.German : possibly a variant of Platow.
Surname or Lastname
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.
Surname or Lastname
English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : diminutive of Platt 1.English (Norfolk) : metonymic occupational name for a platemaker, from Old French platon ‘metal plate’.
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Greek
Broad; Broad Shouldered
Male
Greek
(Πλάτων) Greek name derived from the word platys, PLATON means "broad, flat; plateau."
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").
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Female
Dutch
, bitter.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Health
Boy/Male
Australian, Irish
Bear
Girl/Female
Hindu
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Another Name for the Quran; One who Informs; Evident
Female
Japanese
(è›) Japanese name HOTARU means "firefly; lightning bug."
Boy/Male
Hindu
A Lord Shiva name
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Brilliant; Glittering
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, Christian, English, German, Teutonic
Old Counsel; Old Advisor
Girl/Female
Arabic, Urdu
Pious; Honest
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adv.
In a Platonic manner.
n.
One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato.
n.
Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
n.
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
a.
Alt. of Platonical
n.
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.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Platonize
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Platonize
a.
Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
n.
One who Platonizes.
n.
An elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.
n.
A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
v. t.
To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
v. i.
To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
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.
Now, in the United States service, half of a company.
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.
The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.