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Meaning of PLURALIST

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
  2. [n]  a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
 
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 See Also: liberal, philosopher, progressive

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Plu"ral*ist\, n. (Eccl.)
A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical
benefice. [Eng.]
      Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were
      pluralists.                              --Macaulay.
 

 

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