academic
A follower of Plato, a PlatonistA follower of Plato, a Platonist.
» Tom has an impressive academic record.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
6 senses(capitalized, usually)A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
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.
an educator who works at a college or university
A member of the Academy; an academician.
(plural, plural only)Academic dress; academicals.
(plural, plural only)Academic studies.
(archaic)A student in a college.
Examples
222 sentencesTom has an impressive academic record.
Academic fraud is more common than you might think.
deAkademischer Betrug ist weiter verbreitet, als du denkst. — Yorwba
Academic fraud may be more common than you think.
Academic fraud is probably more common than most people think.
Are you an academic?
deBist du Akademiker? — Waldelfe
Translations
5 languagesOrigin
From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, frFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: academicsSynonyms
2 synonyms- an educator who works at a college or university:academicianfaculty member
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- C1Academic writing style — Because the lesson uses it
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.