Associations to the word «Voltaire»

Wiktionary

VOLTAIRE, proper noun. A pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
VOLTAIRE, proper noun. A city/village in North Dakota.

Dictionary definition

VOLTAIRE, noun. French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne