plutarch
/ˈplu.tɑɹk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
Example Sentences
- "I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America."
- "Some day a Plutarch, without a Plutarch's prejudice will arise, and with malice toward none but charity for all, he will write the life of the statesman, Gladstone."
- "I must in candor admit that the Plutarch of piracy is sometimes more edifying than entertaining."
- "Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates."
Etymology
Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈplu.tɑɹk/
- British English: /ˈpluː.tɑːk/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.