Definitions for Academic

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Academic ac·a·dem·ic

Spelling: [ak-uh-dem-ik]

IPA: /ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪk/

Academic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in Academic (aaccdeim).

Definitions for Academic

noun

1. a student or teacher at a college or university.
2. a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.:
3. (initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
4. academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects:

adjective

1. of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education:
2. pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful:
4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
5. conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional:
6. acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university:
7. (initial capital letter) of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.

Origin of Academic

1580-90; Latin Acadēmicus Greek Akadēmeikós. See academy, academe, -ic

Examples for Academic

The academic, historic, and geopolitical nonsense that Khomeinism equals Iran has lasted long enough.

I feel that what I say about religion is too cold and academic.

Wolfenden was an academic and seen by the establishment as a “safe pair of hands.”

A successful teacher of an academy, raises the standard of academic instruction.

Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?

Certainly it cannot be related to real business life by the academic student.

That is why an academic education nowadays often fails of its purpose.

academic freedom has been a hot debate within education circles.

They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.

The academic product is, it must be remembered, a bundle of conventions.