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academic Adjective 1. relating to a college or university 2. (of pupils) having an aptitude for study 3. relating to studies such as languages and pure science rather than technical or professional studies 4. of theoretical interest only: the argument is academic Noun a member of the teaching or research staff of a college or university academically adv
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academic adjective 3. theoretical, ideal, abstract, speculative, hypothetical, impractical, notional, conjectural noun 4. scholar, intellectual, don, student, master, professor, fellow, pupil, lecturer, tutor, scholastic, bookworm, man of letters, egghead (informal) savant, academician, acca Austral. (slang) bluestocking (usually disparaging) schoolman Translations (pej) [issue] → puramente teórico n → estudioso/a (= lecturer); profesor(a) m/f universitario/a; n → universitaire m/f; academic freedom → liberté f académique (work) → wissenschaftlich; (person) → intellektuell n → Akademiker(in) m(f) (pej) [issue] → puramente formale n → universitario/a |
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| Verily, on soft soles doth it come to me, the dearest of thieves, and stealeth from me my thoughts: stupid do I then stand, like this academic chair.
The early Greek epic -- that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form -- passed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. I found that during my absence from Hampton the institute each year had been getting closer to the real needs and conditions of our people; that the industrial reaching, as well as that of the academic department, had greatly improved. |
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