WILLIAM JAMES Synonyms

• someone who educates young people

• a specialist in philosophy

• a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity

• an adherent of philosophical pragmatism

• a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions

• someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

• a scientist trained in psychology

• someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

• an important intellectual

• someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)

• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

• a person who is able to write and has written something

• a Stuart king of Scotland who married a daughter of Henry VII; when England and France went to war in 1513 he invaded England and died in defeat at Flodden (1473-1513)

• the last Stuart to be king of England and Ireland and Scotland; overthrown in 1688 (1633-1701)

• the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)

• United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)

• United States pragmatic philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910)

• writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)

• (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament

• a river in Virginia that flows east into Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads

• a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri

• a New Testament book attributed to Saint James the Apostle