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

1 sense of thales of miletus

Sense 1
Thales, Thales of Miletus -- (a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC))
       INSTANCE OF=> philosopher -- (a specialist in philosophy)
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)