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peripatetic
[per-uh-puh-tet-ik]
adjective
walking or traveling about; itinerant.
Synonyms: , ,(initial capital letter)of or relating to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
(initial capital letter)of or relating to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.
noun
a person who walks or travels about.
(initial capital letter)a member of the Aristotelian school.
peripatetic
1/ ˌɛɪəˈɛɪ /
adjective
itinerant
employed in two or more educational establishments and travelling from one to another
a peripatetic football coach
noun
a peripatetic person
Peripatetic
2/ ˌɛɪəˈɛɪ /
adjective
of or relating to the teachings of Aristotle, who used to teach philosophy while walking about the Lyceum in ancient Athens
noun
a student of Aristotelianism
Other 51Թ Forms
- peripatetically adverb
- peripateticism noun
- ˌ貹ˈٱپ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of peripatetic1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of peripatetic1
Example Sentences
From the peripatetic days bouncing around a handful of clubs and juggling six part-time jobs in the amateur women's football era to juggling endorsements galore as a one-person global brand.
Far from it: Nadel, a museum curator and comics expert, expresses palpable admiration for Crumb, and sympathy for a peripatetic upbringing that could quietly be as macabre as anything he drew.
Where “Doc” takes place on the quieter floors of a big city hospital, “The Pitt” — shot with peripatetic handheld cameras — is set in its noisiest part, the emergency room.
For many athletes retirement means the end of a career; for the peripatetic Donovan, it’s become an opportunity to try out a whole bunch of new ones.
But Horn, 68, an intellectually peripatetic Conceptualist, has an innate confidence, which may stem from the fact that she does not feel she fits in anywhere, personally or professionally, and never has.
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