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Adjective philistine has 2 senses
  1. Philistine - of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the Philistines
  2. anti-intellectual, philistine - smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
    Antonym: intellectual (indirect, via nonintellectual)
,Noun philistine has 2 senses
  1. philistine, lowbrow - a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
    --1 is a kind of plebeian, pleb
  2. Philistine - a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC
    --2 is a kind of     inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
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