n .
a smugly ignorant person with no appreciation of intellectual or aristocratic matters 지적이거나 예술적인 것을 감상할 줄도 모르고 이해도 없는 독선적이고 무식한 사람

• The novelist dismissed his critics as philistines, saying they wouldn't recognize a good gook if it crawled up and bit then on the nose ; the critics, in reply dismissed the novelist as a philistine who wouldn't recognize a good book if it crawled up and rolled itself into his typewriter.
• Philistine an also be an adjective. To be philistine is to act like a philistine.