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. Albert Einstein:

    By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

  2. Britton Banowsky:

    Syverud said in a statement. RECRUITING HIT : The NCAA penalties included the reduction of three men's basketball scholarships a year for four years and recruiting restrictions will be enforced for two years. Jim Boeheim has what is regarded as the best recruiting class in Jim Boeheim long tenure coming in the fall. In its decision, The NCAA indicated that Syracuse can delay the scholarship reductions by one year in the case of any student-athletes that have a financial agreement with the university. Syracuse loses only Rakeem Christmas from this year's team and is at the 13-scholarship limit for 2015-16. MIDDLING MAN : The NCAA said several violations involved students and staff. The report added that academic violations stemmed from the director of basketball operations, who was hand-picked by Jim Boeheim to address academic matters and ended up violating academic integrity.'' The rule's pretty clear, the head coach has a duty to monitor activities in his program. Jim Boeheim did dispute that Jim Boeheim should be held accountable. There was controversy over that. It( the charge) was not effectively rebutted at all.

  3. 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.

  4. Steven McCullough:

    To the extent they can, districts and schools are asking more from parents to support academic and non-academic expenses.

  5. Penn State Jones:

    Traditionally, we're focused much more on academic achievement and more and more we're realizing through many studies that academic achievement is only one part of making somebody successful, if we're sticking with the schools analogy, it takes the discipline, it takes the motivation, the attitude, the ability to work with others and work with adults to be able to succeed in schools and attain degrees.

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