Definitions for Diogenes

Diogenes Di·og·e·nes

Spelling: [dahy-oj-uh-neez]
IPA: /daɪˈɒdʒ əˌniz/

Diogenes is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in Diogenes (deeginos).

Definitions for Diogenes

noun

  1. 412?–323 b.c, Greek Cynic philosopher.

Examples for Diogenes

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

Diogenes, when asked which wine he preferred, replied, 'That of other people.'

In what a profound philosophy was it, then, that Diogenes rolled his tub about the streets!

The function of Diogenes is not performed either by the pulpit or the press.

He was, says Diogenes Laertius, "the inventor of Dialectics."

"But I am not derided," said Diogenes,  when some one told him he was derided.

In 1783 he died the death of Diogenes, minus the wit of the cynic.

Let us not envy each other; if you were not Diogenes, you would be Alexander.

Diogenes sought them with a lantern, he seeks them with a banknote in his hand.

Marta,” said Pen impressively, “Diogenes should have known you.

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