thinker

Definition

One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.

Etymology

From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).

Example Sentences

• "The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other."
• "From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”"
• ""Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination.""