What does academic mean?

Definitions for academic
ˌæk əˈdɛm ɪkaca·dem·ic

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word academic.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. academician, academic, faculty memberadjective

    an educator who works at a college or university

  2. academicadjective

    associated with academia or an academy

    "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"

  3. academicadjective

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

    "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"

  4. academic, donnish, pedanticadjective

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

Wiktionary

  1. academicnoun

    A member of the Academy; a follower of Plato, a Platonist.

  2. academicnoun

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

  3. academicnoun

    A person who attends an academy.

  4. academicnoun

    One who is academic in practice.

  5. academicadjective

    Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.

  6. academicadjective

    Pertaining to or characteristic of a school.

  7. academicadjective

    Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.

  8. academicadjective

    Being scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

  9. academicadjective

    Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.

  10. academicadjective

    Having an aptitude for study.

  11. academicadjective

    Having no practical importance.

  12. academicadjective

    To be so scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world.

  13. academicadjective

    Theoretical or speculative.

    I have always had an academic interest in hacking.

  14. Etymology: * First attested in 1588.

Wikipedia

  1. academic

    An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

ChatGPT

  1. academic

    Academic refers to anything related to education, learning, research, and scholarship conducted within an educational institution such as a school, college, or university. It involves the pursuit of knowledge, intellectual growth, and critical thinking through formal study, classes, lectures, and research activities. Academic pursuits are generally structured, systematic, and guided by the principles of evidence-based reasoning, rigor, and objectivity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Academicadjective

    alt. of Academical

  2. Academicnoun

    one holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist

  3. Academicnoun

    a member of an academy, college, or university; an academician

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Academic

    ak-ad-em′ik, n. a Platonic philosopher: a student in a college. [See Academy.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. academic

    1. Of, or pertaining to, fossils; vegetative; parasitic; the opposite of change, viable, evolution. 2. Relating to a society that promotes the love of the static and the immobile. 3. Apish, parrot-like, phonographic.

Editors Contribution

  1. academic

    Relating to education.

    The academic calendar is different to an ordinary calendar.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 8, 2020  

Suggested Resources

  1. Academic

    Academic vs. Academy -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Academic and Academy.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'academic' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2149

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'academic' in Adjectives Frequency: #288

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of academic in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of academic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of academic in a Sentence

  1. Florence Brown:

    But when we see an association between maternal higher( blood sugar) in pregnancy and worse offspring academic achievement we can not say that there is cause and effect, while the authors try to adjust for the effect of parental education on child educational performance, there may be other factors that influence offspring academic achievement.

  2. Lee Raby:

    This is not the first time that we, the field, has observed that this early sensitivity effect is more associated with academic than social performance, but much of the theory that is driving this area of research would anticipate the reverse of that, it creates questions.

  3. Kristi Noem:

    Under the guise of academic research, this report is nothing short of an attack on those who exercised their personal freedom to attend Sturgis, predictably, some in the media breathlessly report on this non-peer reviewed model, built on incredibly faulty assumptions that do not reflect the actual facts and data.

  4. Robin Beaman:

    It's fitting the pieces of the puzzle back together. And it's not just an academic exercise, the great gas resources for Australia are in the west, and if you fit that jigsaw back, you get more of a picture of how those gas resources were created.

  5. Mayor Rahm Emanuel:

    After years of our academic gains, now is not the time to shortchange our children by eliminating evaluations for tens of thousands of employees or lowering teachers' performance standards.

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