Pronounced: KLAN-dike, noun
Notes: While I know about the Klondike region, there is another meaning that I didn’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word clerisy is “the artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite; intelligentsia”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1800s
Background / Comments
Our word was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. From my reference information, he believed that is humanity was to flourish, it was necessary to create a secular organization of learned individuals – poets, philosophers, scholars, etc – to spread indispensable knowledge throughout the community. He called this group the clerisy, which came from the German word Klerisei (clergy). Note that in old times, the word “clergy” meant “learning” or “knowledge”.
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