thinker

[ thing-ker ]

/ ˈθɪŋ kər /

a person who thinks, as in a specified way or manner: a slow thinker.

a person who has a well-developed faculty for thinking, as a philosopher, theorist, or scholar: the great thinkers.

Origin of thinker

First recorded in 1400–50, thinker is from the late Middle English word thenkare. See think¹, -er¹

non·think·er, noun

Thinker, The

(French Le Penseur), a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.

You were judged as a thinker by the way you lived before others.

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One of my favorite quotations is one attributed to the French thinker Jean Baudrillard.

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Jonathan Weiner on the uncomfortable ideas of the thinker Daniel Dennett.

Is the Brain No Different From a Light Switch? The Uncomfortable Ideas of the Philosopher Daniel Dennett |Jonathan Weiner |May 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Rabbi David Hartman, who passed away yesterday, was a towering educator and thinker.

The Tragedy And Success Of Rabbi David Hartman |Elisheva Goldberg |February 11, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Murray does not heed that answer for a reason that reflects both the best and the worst in his method as a writer and thinker.

What the Founders Would Tell Charles Murray |David Frum |February 7, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
A thinker, he was adventurous in that world; to him, the true world of action.

The Long Roll |Mary Johnston
Williams was a thinker, a doctrinary, too far in advance of his age to be the successful organizer of a new state.

The Beginners of a Nation |Edward Eggleston.
I may not be a tin sport, but I keep my thinker going all the time.

The Varmint |Owen Johnson
As a thinker, as a Christian, and as a man, Vinet occupies a typical place.

Amiel's Journal |Henri-Frdric Amiel
Nevertheless to the Greek thinker the immortality of the soul is not yet more than a vague suggestion, the outcome of desire.

Browning and Dogma |Ethel M. Naish