1. A smug, ignorant, and especially a middle-class person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the fine arts, etc.: Adam is a philistine who is contemptuous of poetry, music, and artistic creations and wants nothing to do with them because he considers them to be worthless.

A philistine is an individual who is regarded as being antagonistic or who has a negative attitude regarding the thoughts, tastes, manners, etc. of others.

2. A Philisine was one of a non-Semitic people who lived in the area near the coast of the southeast Mediterranean in ancient times and were often at war with the Israelites: The Philistines, as a seafaring folk, dwelled along the coast of Lebanon and Israel in the region of the Gaza-Ashdid-Jaffa.
3. Etymology: from Late Latin Philistaeus or from Philistaea, "the land of the Philistines" from Greek philistia and from Hebrew Pelesheth. © ALL rights are reserved.

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