academic

4 definitions found

academic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Academic \Ac`a*dem"ic\, Academical \Ac`a*dem"ic*al\, a. [L.
     academicus: cf. F. acad['e]migue. See Academy.]
     1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the
        Academic sect or philosophy.
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     2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of
        learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction
        from scientific. "Academic courses." --Warburton.
        "Academical study." --Berkeley.
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  Academic \Ac`a*dem"ic\, n.
     1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a
        Platonist. --Hume.
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     2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an
        academician.
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academic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  academic
      adj 1: associated with academia or an academy; "the academic
             curriculum"; "academic gowns"
      2: hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an
         immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an
         academic question"
      3: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially
         its trivial aspects [syn: academic, donnish, pedantic]
      n 1: an educator who works at a college or university [syn:
           academician, academic, faculty member]

academic - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "academic":
     abstract, armchair, book-learned, bookish, booky, chimerical,
     classroom, closet, collegiate, conjectural, cross-disciplinary,
     devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, erudite,
     extramural, graduate, graduate-professional, hypothetic,
     hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, imaginary, impractical,
     interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, ivory-tower,
     learned, lettered, mandarin, moot, notional, owlish, pedagogic,
     pedagogical, pedantic, postgraduate, postulatory, preceptorial,
     preschool, professional, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic,
     scholarly, scholastic, school, schoolish, schoolmastering,
     schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy,
     schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, speculative, studious,
     teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, theoretical, tutorial,
     university, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary