stoic

stoic \STOH-ik\

(noun)

1 capitalized : a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 B.C.
*2 : one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain

a.
1 스토아 철학(파)의
2 [s~] 극기의, 금욕의; 냉정한(impassive)
n.
1 스토아 철학자
2 [s~] 극기[금욕]주의자

Example sentence:
Prairie living was far from easy, but the homesteaders were stoics who endured hardship after hardship with calm and almost superhuman fortitude.

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