plutarch means the classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
plutarch is pronounced /ˈpluː.tɑːk/.
Etymology
Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).
name
- The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.“I am indebted to […]those masterly pen and ink portraits of many of our deceased ministers drawn by the lamented Professor Stoever, in the Evangelical Review, whom I designated some years ago as the Plutarch of the Lutheran Church of America.”
noun
- Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives“Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.”