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US
/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
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[ UK /ˌækədˈɛmɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌækədˈɛmɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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associated with academia or an academy
the academic curriculum
academic gowns - marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
an academic question
an academic discussion
NOUN
- an educator who works at a college or university
How To Use academic In A Sentence
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- Second, his academic experience at the University of Chicago makes him singularly suited to translate the arcana of policy into an accessible format.
- Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. Orrologion
- Many of them had not undertaken even the leaving certificate or the academic entry qualifications necessary to enter university.
- To academic historians they were ‘mere entertainment’ - just mindless pap for gormless morons.
- We truly are much more team oriented and friendlike to our children than parents have tended to be in the past, in large part because we too identify with many of the peer and academic pressures that kids now face. Childhood Unbound
- Long gone are the days when Chairman Mao was idolised by radicals (and even respected by some mainstream academics) on American university campuses.
- Politicians, academics and campaigners today routinely frame public issues in emotional terms.
- [From Vivaculus:]… I hasted to London, and entreated one of my academical acquaintances to introduce me into some of the little societies of literature which are formed in taverns and coffee - houses.
- This was the case that upheld a Washington law that gave academic scholarships to qualified students, but forbid them from using them to study theology.