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academician

academician

4 8.1
A person who teaches or does research at a university
  • noun
  • /ˌækəˈdɛmɪʃən/
  • Formal
translation icon : académico
  • Significant differences between the academician and practitioner subgroups were identified for seven propositions.
  • academician and practitioner
  • academicians and educators
  • researchers, especially academicians

I've never met someone who is as rigorous intellectually as you are, who is not an academician.

Examples

  • For all seven propositions, the academicians were more optimistic about the probability of occurrence.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Economists, politicians, and academicians use the living standard as a measurement of economic growth.

    Academic text (2012)
  • However, being an excellent academician, although a necessary condition for leading the faculty, is no longer sufficient.

    Academic text (2008)
  • For me and the profession, he was a model of everything good in an academician, practitioner, and mentor.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The 2008 report was shared with academicians and the public at a workshop held in 2009.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Without such influence, environmental academicians are also not likely to effect changes in curriculum content.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Often, the research of the academician is so theoretical that the implications are not intuitive.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Generally, educationalists and academicians were late to become aware of its importance.

    Academic text (2015)
  • It is now my honor to call to this stage... this university's most distinguished academician.

  • It is now my honor to call to this stage... this university's most distinguished academician.

Synonyms

professor
vsacademician
3.2

A senior teacher and researcher at a university or college

refers more to formal academy membership or broad recognized scholarship
scholar
vsacademician
281 4.1

A person with deep knowledge who studies a subject carefully for many years

stresses formal academy membership rather than personal learning
intellectual
vsacademician
94 6.0

A person who thinks deeply about ideas, art, or science

is more about formal academy membership and recognized scholarship
academic
vsacademician
68 3.9

A person who teaches or does research at a university

is a formally recognized academy member or honored scholar
faculty member
vsacademician
40 3.5

A teacher or researcher who works at a university

focuses on being an officially recognized member of an academy

Surface Forms

academician singular
academicians plural

Morphology

academician = academic (transparent) = academic + ian

Formed by adding the agentive/person suffix '-ian' to 'academic', yielding a person associated with academia; the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Academician comes from academy, which comes from the Greek Akademeia, the name of Plato's old 'place of learning'. That's why an academician is someone who belongs to an academy or is a recognized scholar.