thinker

thinker
/thing"keuhr/, n.
1. a person who thinks, as in a specified way or manner: a slow thinker.
2. a person who has a well-developed faculty for thinking, as a philosopher, theorist, or scholar: the great thinkers.
[1400-50; late ME thenkare. See THINK1, -ER1]

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