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How to pronounce peripatetic in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms aristotelean, aristotelian
Type of adherent, disciple
Derivation peripateticism
Type Words
Synonyms wayfaring


peripatetic country preachers.
Type Words
Synonyms aristotelean, aristotelian, aristotelic
Type Words
Type of footer, pedestrian, walker

Examples of peripatetic

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The peripatetic existence, in fact, is all Gray has known since his late teens.
From the sacbee.com
Until a couple of years ago, the peripatetic Mr Charan did not even own a home.
From the economist.com
Emperors were no longer peripatetic between various court capitals and palaces.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Tom Raffa is a peripatetic sort who sees business opportunities in everything.
From the washingtonpost.com
Peripatetic and a free spirit, Hickman has never stayed in one job very long.
From the stltoday.com
Others are renegades or peripatetic cultural ambassadors or secluded misfits.
From the time.com
The Sheba Miles loyalty club is presumably named after the peripatetic Queen.
From the economist.com
Michael O'Hanlon is one of those perpetually peripatetic Pentagon punditeers.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
She feels she grew up with no fixed abode, had a theatrical, peripatetic childhood.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • A person who walks from place to place
  • Aristotelian: of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy; "Aristotelean logic"
  • Traveling especially on foot; "peripatetic country preachers"; "a poor wayfaring stranger"
  • (peripateticism) Aristotelianism: (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science; "Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Western thought"
  • The Peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece.
  • (adj) walking or traveling about; itinerant
  • Someone who travels from place to place in the course of their employment (or some other type of activity), such as a music teacher working in more than one school.