academic
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3.9
- noun
- /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
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académico
- Like, I love my job as a researcher, but being an academic is hard.
- many academics
- academics and activists
- academics and politicians
The other half of people see the academic being more friendly and warm.
- The other half of people see the academic being more friendly and warm.
- And as I sit there and listen to these various academics, I thought, that's not true.
- Like, I love my job as a researcher, but being an academic is hard.
- They're taught by academics, not by teachers as it were.
- He's not a he's not a theorist or an academic, but that's why he's successful.
- Actually, they're the words written by famed American academic WEB Dubois.
- Now you're not an academic by training.
- I talked about how your parents are, you know, academics and intellectuals, intellectuals.
- scientists. They're academics. There are people who are
- So Marxism spread across America via academics by poor dad.
- So Marxism spread across America via academics like Poor Dad.
- Us all breathe because we have accomplished what few academics academics have ever done.
- Intelligence testing tend to be academics who by and large are pretty smart people.
- But you've got professional counsellors, academics, other people want to help to change.
Examples
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Both authors are simultaneously academics and active participants in direct action movements.
Academic text (2008) -
He's an academic, a bookworm.
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I am a serious academic.
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Brilliant man, of course, but an academic.
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Years ago, I was talking with a fellow academic who, like me, was a passionate cat lover.
Academic text (2017) -
For the here and now, most academics and politicians favor floating exchange rates.
Academic text (1999) -
Van Niekerk was a South African lawyer and academic who came to question the system of apartheid.
Academic text (1990) -
The city was safe enough, populated mostly by academics here to study the glacially slow indigenous life forms.
Fiction book (2000) -
As an academic, she dedicated her life to teaching and mentoring students at the university.
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The university invited an esteemed academic to give a lecture on climate change research.
Synonyms
∞
3.2
A senior teacher and researcher at a university or college
∞
1.0
A person who gives lessons to students in a school or college
693
2.7
A person who studies something carefully to find new information
323
7.9
A college or university teacher who gives lectures and advice to students
281
4.1
A person with deep knowledge who studies a subject carefully for many years
221
2.9
A person who teaches a subject or skill in a class
164
3.0
A person who teaches or helps others learn, often at school
42
3.1
A person who gives talks to students at a college or university
40
3.5
A teacher or researcher who works at a university
32
3.9
A teacher at a college or university who has a lower rank than an associate professor
10
3.0
A college or university teacher who teaches English language and literature
4
8.1
A person who teaches or does research at a university
2
8.9
A university teacher who ranks below a full professor
Compounds
- Formal
7
4.5
The right of teachers and students in schools and universities to say what they think and study without outside control
5
3.2
A planned set of school courses in subjects like arts and sciences to prepare for college
1
3.0
A part of a college or university that teaches and studies one subject like biology
1
3.2
A certificate from a college or university that shows someone finished a course of study
- Formal
A formal robe and cap that university teachers and students wear at ceremonies like graduations
A formal connection between teachers and their students at school or university
A long loose gown worn by professors or judges on special occasions like graduation ceremonies
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
Academic for a person comes from academy, a school for scholars and teachers. So an academic is someone who teaches or does research at a university.