Émile

[ey-meel]

noun

1. a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.

Émile

1. A work on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau, describing how a fictional boy, Émile, should be brought up. The book had an enormous influence on education during the age of romanticism and afterward.

Example Sentences

But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.

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But novelist Emile Zola then penned his famous "J'accuse...!"

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Emile Heskey feels it is difficult to see where the next main England striker comes from, following the decline of the traditional number nine in recent years.

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First up: an explanation from Emile Bouret, my personal coach, of why wealthy and otherwise sane people are attracted to hitting eye-watering speeds in the first place.

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Yet as Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, observes in the thoughtful and entertaining “Captive Gods,” founders of modern sociology such as Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Max Weber were “preoccupied with religion.”

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