Meaning & use
Phrontistery
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A place set aside for thinking, study, or contemplation.
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He converted the attic into a quiet phrontistery filled with books and a single reading chair.
The old professor called his cluttered office his personal phrontistery.
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Coined from Greek phrontistes, 'thinker'; the word was famously used by Aristophanes to mock Socrates' school of thought in the comedy 'The Clouds'.
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