[fil-uh-sof, fil-uh-zof; Fr. fee-law-zawf] 
[-sofs, -zofs; Fr. -zawf] . | 1. | any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire. |
| 2. | a philosophaster. |
| phi·lo·sophe (fĭl'ə-sŏf', fē'lô-zôf') n. Any of the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the 18th-century French Enlightenment. [French, from Old French, philosopher; see philosopher.] |