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adjective. Of or relating to institutionalized education and scholarship, especially at a college or university.

adjective. Of or relating to studies that rely on reading and involve abstract thought rather than being primarily practical or technical.

adjective. Relating to scholarly performance.

adjective. Of or relating to the conservative style of art promoted by an official academy, especially the Académie des Beaux Arts in France in the nineteenth century.

adjective. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed, unengaging, or theoretical.

adjective. Having no important consequence or relevancy.

noun. A faculty member or scholar at an institution of higher learning, such as a university.

noun. One who has an academic viewpoint or a scholarly background.

[capitalized] Pertaining to the Academy of Athens, or to Plato and his followers, from his having taught there: as, the Academic groves; the Academic school or philosophy.

Pertaining to an advanced institution of learning, as a college, a university, or an academy; relating to or connected with higher education: in this and the following senses often, and in the third generally, written academical: as, academic studies; an academical degree.

Pertaining to that department of a college or university which is concerned with classical, mathematical, and general literary studies, as distinguished from the professional and scientific departments; designed for general as opposed to special instruction.

[U. S.] Of or pertaining to an academy or association of adepts; marked by or belonging to the character or methods of such an academy; hence, conforming to set rules and traditions; speculative; formal; conventional: as, academical proceedings; an academical controversy; an academic figure (in art).

noun. [capitalized] One who professed to adhere to the philosophy of Plato.

noun. A student in a college or university: as, “a young academic,” Watts, Imp. of Mind.

noun. A member of an academy or learned society; an academist or academician.

adjective. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.

adjective. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

noun. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

noun. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

adjective. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.

adjective. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.

adjective. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

adjective. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

adjective. associated with academia or an academy

noun. an educator who works at a college or university

"By consistently quoting the term "academic" in their legislation, the representatives are attempting to legitimate the teaching of the Bible as safely impartial and nonsectarian."

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