Definitions for Rousseau

Rousseau Rous·seau

Spelling: [roo-soh; French roo-soh]
IPA: /ruˈsoʊ; French ruˈsoʊ/

Rousseau is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in Rousseau (aeorssuu).

Definitions for Rousseau

noun

  1. Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Le Douanier") 1844–1910, French painter.
  2. Jean Jacques [zhahn zhahk] /ʒɑ̃ ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), 1712–78, French philosopher, author, and social reformer; born in Switzerland.
  3. (Pierre Étienne) Théodore [pyer ey-tyen te-aw-dawr] /pyɛr eɪˈtyɛn tɛ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1812–67, French painter.

Examples for Rousseau

We need not say with Rousseau that men are naturally virtuous.

The intellectual descendants of Hobbes and Rousseau tend to regard government as either a cure for or a cause of violence.

Rousseau, in his "Confessions," reveals the sexual feelings of the masochist.

Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect—he read it to his friends.

The exponent of Rousseau was ofttimes "long preaching," like St. Paul.

Rousseau supplies her with the perfect and finished statement of all that she opposed.

And as Rousseau told us long ago, equality breeds comparison, and comparison breeds competition.

Rousseau maintained that humans are peaceful in their natural state; wars result from the corrupting influences of civilization.

He had read Rousseau, Voltaire, and other thinkers in French society.

But she was quoting Rousseau and Voltaire in her letters when she was only 16, before she ever met the doctor.

Word Value for Rousseau
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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