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Usually means: A rhetorician using fallacious reasoning
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sophist:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sophist: Merriam-Webster
  2. sophist: Wordnik
  3. sophist: Cambridge English Dictionary
  4. sophist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  5. sophist: Oxford English Dictionary
  6. sophist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  7. sophist: Collins English Dictionary
  8. Sophist, sophist: Vocabulary.com
  9. sophist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sophist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sophist: Random House Unabridged Dictionary (1997)
  12. sophist: Dictionary.com
  13. sophist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Sophist: Rhymezone (WordNet)
  15. sophist: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. sophist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sophist: TheFreeDictionary.com (American Heritage)

General (historical) (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sophist (1755), sophist (1773): Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
  2. sophist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  3. sophist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

User-edited (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sophist: Wiktionary
  2. Sophist (dialogue), Sophist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. sophist: Urban Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. -sophist: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sophist: A Word A Day

(Note: See sophists as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sophist)

noun:  (figurative) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
noun:  One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
noun:  (dated) Alternative form of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”). [A sophist.]

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