academic
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Latin academicus: compare French académique. See academy.
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academic (comparative more academic, superlative most academic)
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- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning.
- academic courses - William Warburton
- academical study - George Berkeley
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.
- Being scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
- Conforming to set rules and traditions.
- Having an aptitude for study.
- (pejorative) Having no practical importance.
[edit] Derived terms
- academic advantage
- academic disadvantage
- academic institution
- academic question
- academic degree
- academic discipline
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belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning
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belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
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scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific
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having no practical importance
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[edit] Noun
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academic (plural academics)
- A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
- A person who attends an academy.
- One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
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member of an academy, college, or university
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person who attends an academy
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Platonist
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[edit] See also
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- academic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- academic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Interlingua
[edit] Adjective
academic
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Adjective
academic (academică f., academici m. pl., academice f. pl.)
- Academic m.
