Meaning of ACADEMICIAN
| Pronunciation: | | u`kadu'mishun
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- [n] an educator who works at a college or university
- [n] a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
- [n] someone elected to honorary membership in an academy
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| | Synonyms: | | academic, faculty member, schoolman |
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| | See Also: | | academy, educator, honorary society, honoree, pedagogue, professor, scholar, scholarly person, student | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ac`a*de*mi"cian\ (#; 277), n. [F. acad['e]micien.
See {Academy}.]
1. A member of an academy, or society for promoting science,
art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal
Academy of arts.
2. A collegian. [R.] --Chesterfield.
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| | Related Terms: | | bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, genius, giant of learning, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia |
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