Ancient Greek philosopher

The answer

PLATO

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PLATO answer page.

Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2009. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• ARISTOTLE (3 uses in xd)
• THALES (1 uses in xd)
• ZENO (1 uses in xd)

Other clues for PLATO

Every other clue in this collection answered by PLATO, most used first.

• Student of Socrates - used 66 times, most recently in 2026
• Aristotle's teacher - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Academy founder - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Greek philosopher - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
• Pupil of Socrates - used 18 times, most recently in 2022
• "Republic" writer - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• "The Republic" author - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
• "The Republic" writer - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Teacher of Aristotle - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• "Allegory of the cave" philosopher - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Author of "The Republic" - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• "Republic" author - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• "Republic" philosopher - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• "The Republic" philosopher - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Socrates' student - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• "Symposium" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Last Greek letter - OMEGA, used 187 times
• Greek marketplace - AGORA, used 130 times
• First Greek letter - ALPHA, used 108 times
• Greek letter - THETA, used 103 times
• Philosopher Kierkegaard - SOREN, used 84 times
• Ancient Mexican - AZTEC, used 78 times

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