RABBIS Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

rabbis

noun

plural of rabbi

as in intellectuals

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Noun

The company named all its weapons after Ukrainian intellectuals and artists killed or persecuted by Russians in the last century.

— Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
Yet other scholars, activists and intellectuals have their takes, too, on the Harlem Renaissance’s many political movements and bids for Black self-determination.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of intellectuals

Noun

Even Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and the other great thinkers of antiquity and the Middle Ages never developed anything resembling our modern understanding of intellectual property.

— Coke Morgan Stewart, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
The great religious thinkers of Antiquity—from Gautama to Pythagoras to Jesus—taught that property should be renounced or held in common.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of thinkers

Noun

The sages were teaching that life can progress from a state that is concealed to one of revelation and clarity, which, in our tradition, comes with this Day of Atonement.

— Ben Corn, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026
Our sages teach us that the reason God chose to create Adam as a single human being — unlike other species, which were created in large numbers all at once — is to demonstrate that each person is as valuable as the entire world.

— Meir Moscowitz, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of sages

Noun

Women are compelled to suppress their desires, intellects, and emotions in Gilead.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
While the likes of Philo and Trotter have expanded upon the idea by prioritizing people whose intellects align with their brand values, Jacquemus takes it to another level.

— Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2026

Definition of intellects

Noun

But how would our brains respond if only some of those frames of film contained footage of a movie, and the rest of the frames were random junk?

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 29 Oct. 2026
Researchers estimated that former NFL players with clear cognitive symptoms were roughly five times more likely to donate their brains than those without such symptoms.

— Ryan Morik OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of brains

Noun

Most preschool teachers do not have a college degree and most earn little more than minimum wage.

— Michael Cuglietta, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
People who earn at least 50,000 pounds ($67,000) a year will only have to wait five years, as will public-sector workers including doctors, nurses and teachers.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

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