academic

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
3. In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
4. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
5. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
6. Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
7. Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
8. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.

Noun

1. (capitalized, usually) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
4. (archaic) A student in a college.
5. (plural, plural-only) Academic dress; academicals.
6. (plural, plural-only) Academic studies.

Sinonieme

scholar

student

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scholastic

undergraduate

academical

academician

theoretical

learned

donnish

pedantic

educated

abstract

scientific

scholarly

formalistic

conventional

faculty member

lettered

literary

collegiate

moot

academist

bookish

preceptor

professor

pupil

pure

scholastical

school

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schoolchild

schoolmaster

science

scientist

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speculative

teacher

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technical

theoretic

tutor

university

university graduate

unpractical

untouchable

educatee

university student

knowledge

schoraly

theory-based

Student

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academically

arid

Vertalings

acadêmico

académique

universitaire

accademico

académico

ακαδημαϊκός

akademisch

xwendekar

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telebe

studente

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hînber

acadèmic

estudiant

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fêrber

Student

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/

Etimologie (Engels)

From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy. By surface analysis, academy + -ic.