intelligentsia
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[edit] Etymology
From Russian интеллигенция (intelligéncija) or Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia (“‘intelligence’”).
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[edit] Noun
inteligentsia
- The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).
[edit] Translations
Intellectual élite
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[edit] References
- Notes:
- ^ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).