academician

See also: Academician

English

Etymology

From academic +‎ -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌka.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌa.kə.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/, /əˌkæ.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

academician (plural academicians)

1. (now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. [from 17th c.]
2. A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts. [from 17th c.]
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, page 9:

     ‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’

Synonyms

member of university faculty

• academian

• academic

Derived terms

• academicianship

Related terms

terms related to academician

• academy

• academia

Translations

member of an academy

• Catalan: acadèmic
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 院士 (zh) (yuànshì)

• Dutch: academielid m
• Esperanto: akademiano
• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
• French: académicien (fr) m
• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f
• Ido: akademiano (io)
• Irish: acadamhaí m, ball d'acadamh m

• Italian: accademico (it)
• Japanese: アカデミー会員 (akademī kaiin)
• Latvian: akadēmiķis m, akadēmiķe f
• Macedonian: акаде́мик m (akadémik)
• Norman: académicien m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: acadêmico (pt)
• Romanian: academician (ro) m, academiciană (ro) f
• Russian: акаде́мик (ru) m (akadémik)
• Spanish: académico (es) m, académica (es) f, academista (es) m, f
• Swedish: akademiledamot (sv), akademimedlem

collegian

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大學生 (zh), 大学生 (zh) (dàxuéshēng)

• Dutch: academicus (nl) m
• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)

• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f, Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f
• Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei), 大学生 (ja) (だいがくせい, gakusei), 学徒 (ja) (がくと, gakuto)
• Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka)

member faculty

• Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
• German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f

• Japanese: 学者 (ja) (がくしゃ, gakusha)
• Russian: преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), профе́ссор (ru) m (proféssor)

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• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אקדמאי‏‎ m (aqademai), ^{(please verify)} אקדמאית‏‎ f (aqademait)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} akademiker, ^{(please verify)} medlem n, ^{(please verify)} av et akademi

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} académico m