Sekirov Dictionary

academic

/ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk/

adjective 8
noun 6
forms 3

adjective8

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Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm. — 1959
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In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment. — 1991
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Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
- the distinction is academic
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Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.
Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.

noun6

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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.
- Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises. — 2013
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A member of the Academy; an academician.
- Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […]. — 1624
[plural only] Academic studies.
[plural only] Academic dress; academicals.
A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
(no longer used) A student in a college.

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