Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun descartes

1 sense of descartes

Sense 1
Descartes, Rene Descartes -- (French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> philosopher -- (a specialist in philosophy)