Diderot

American  

[dee-duh-roh, deed^uh-roh] / ˈdi dəˌroʊ, didəˈroʊ /

noun

1. Denis 1713–84, French philosopher, critic, and encyclopedist.

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Diderot British  

/ ˈdiːdərəʊ, didro /

noun

1. Denis (dəni). 1713–84, French philosopher, noted particularly for his direction (1745–72) of the great French Encyclopédie

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Diderot

For Montagnac, 69, it was especially painful to see the owner of a furniture store on Boulevard Diderot hauling his sofas and chairs into the back of the shop to deter looters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Denis Diderot hoped that, in death, he would unite with his beloved as a flurry of molecules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

The incident happened at a museum dedicated to French philosopher Denis Diderot in Landres, north-eastern France on Sunday night.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025

Figures like Diderot and Hume derived some of their ideas on liberty from classical texts, where they found declarations of political and personal freedoms.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

Many eighteenth-century atheists, such as d’Holbach and Diderot, were to take their inspiration from Descartes’ mechanism and turn it into a systematic materialism with no room for God.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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