| 单词 | thinking-shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthinking-shop thinking-shop n. colloquial a building, institution, or other centre for study or developing ideas; (also) a body engaged in studying or in developing ideas; cf. talking-shop n. at talking n. Compounds. [In quot. 1837 after ancient Greek ϕροντιστήριον phrontisterion n. Compare thought shop n. at thought n. Compounds 2.] ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution studya1382 school1440 learning-place1517 pedagogy1571 learning-seat1584 seminary1585 Academe1598 phrontisterion1615 phrontistery1623 pedagoguery1820 thinking-shop1837 centre of learning1844 1837 B. D. Walsh tr. Aristophanes Clouds i. ii, in Comedies 289 I am come To be a Scholar in the Thinking-shop. 1890 Spectator 19 Apr. It turned Oxford into an aristocratic boarding-school from a democratic thinking-shop. 1998 Business Line (Nexis) 18 Sept. Strange that the Congress(I) at its Panchmarhi thinking-shop should have again revived the slogan of socialistic pattern of society. < as lemmas |
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