"The Republic" writer

The answer

PLATO

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

Used 13 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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
• 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
• Ancient Greek philosopher - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Socrates' student - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
• "Symposium" author - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

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• In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
• Of the kidneys - RENAL, used 166 times

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