English

Noun

Academic ‎(plural Academics)

1. The title for someone who is an academic.

Adjective

Academic ‎(not comparable)

1. Alternative form of academic

English

Alternative forms

• academick (obsolete)
• acad, acad. (abbreviation)
• Academic

Adjective

academic ‎(comparative more academic, superlative most academic)

1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy. [First attested in the late 16th century.]^[2]
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization. [First attested in the late 16th century.]^[2]
   • academic courses - William Warburton
   • academical study - George Berkeley
3. Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or vocational; having no practical importance. [First attested in the late 19th century.]^[2]

   I have always had an academic interest in hacking.‎

4. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.

   I'm more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.‎

5. (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. [First attested in the late 19th century.]^[2]
6. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
7. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.

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Noun

academic ‎(plural academics)

1. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]^[2]
2. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [First attested in the late 16th century.]^[2]
   • 2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

     Academics […] see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.

3. A member of the Academy; an academician. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]^[2]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.2.ii:

     Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].

4. (plural only) Academic dress; academicals. [First attested in the early 19th century.]^[2]
5. (plural only) Academic studies. [First attested in the late 20th century.]^[2]

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See also

• scientific

References

1. ↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], ISBN 0-87779-101-5)
2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7)

Interlingua

Adjective

academic

1. academic

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kaˈde.mik/

Adjective

academic m, n ‎(feminine singular academică, masculine plural academici, feminine and neuter plural academice)

1. academic

Declension