Pla·to

(plā′tō) 427?-347? bc.

Greek philosopher noted for his many written dialogues in which his mentor Socrates appears as the central character. The best known of these, The Republic, expounds Plato's idealist philosophy and describes a hypothetical utopian state ruled by thinkers. He taught and wrote for much his life at the Academy, which he founded near Athens around 386.

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Plato

(ˈpleɪtəʊ)

(Biography) ?427–?347 bc, Greek philosopher: with his teacher Socrates and his pupil Aristotle, he is regarded as the initiator of western philosophy. His influential theory of ideas, which makes a distinction between objects of sense perception and the universal ideas or forms of which they are an expression, is formulated in such dialogues as Phaedo, Symposium, and The Republic. Other works include The Apology and Laws

Plato

(ˈpleɪtəʊ)

(Astronomy) a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon, about 100 km in diameter, that has a conspicuous dark floor

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Pla•to

(ˈpleɪ toʊ)

n.

427–347 B.C., Greek philosopher.

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Plato - ancient Athenian philosopher; pupil of Socrates; teacher of Aristotle (428-347 BC)

Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital - the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess); "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city"

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Platón

Platon

Πλάτων

Platon

Platon

Plato

Платон

Plato

[ˈpleɪtəʊ] N → Platón

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Plato

n → Plato(n) m

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Plato

[ˈpleɪtəʊ] n → Platone m

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My name is Platon, and the surname is Karataev," he added, evidently wishing to make it easier for Pierre to address him.

And Platon Karataev told a long story of how he had gone into someone's copse to take wood, how he had been caught by the keeper, had been tried, flogged, and sent to serve as a soldier.

But if Platon hadn't been shaved for a soldier, Michael would have had to go.' called us all to him and, will you believe it, placed us in front of the icons.

"Eh?" murmured Platon, who had almost fallen asleep.

"Well, of course," replied Platon quickly, "the horses' saints.

For a long time Pierre did not sleep, but lay with eyes open in the darkness, listening to the regular snoring of Platon who lay beside him, and he felt that the world that had been shattered was once more stirring in his soul with a new beauty and on new and unshakable foundations.

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Levin talked to Fyodor about this land and asked whether Platon, a well-to-do peasant of good character belonging to the same village, would not take the land for the coming year.

"It's a high rent; it wouldn't pay Platon, Konstantin Dmitrievitch," answered the peasant, picking the ears off his sweat-drenched shirt.

But Uncle Fokanitch" (so he called the old peasant Platon), "do you suppose he'd flay the skin off a man?

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Some twenty years since, I paid a visit to Platon Ordintzeff at his country-house.

Well, her husband Platon was driven desperate to find some.

The wretched Platon, who had almost died since yesterday of the reproaches showered upon him, wept on my shoulder.

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