Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An academic.
- noun A member of an art, literary, or scientific academy or society.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of an academy or a society for promoting arts and sciences.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
- noun rare A collegian.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
- noun an educator who works at a college or university
- noun someone elected to honorary membership in an academy
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Examples
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did.
Recent Activity 2010
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Professor Shtik was a local "academician" and member of the Writers Union who had made state-funded trips to Iowa to research
American Thinker 2009
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It wasn't until that film's closing moments that we were teased with an impending face-off between Holmes and the villainous James Moriarty, unassuming academician by day, world-beating megalomaniac by night.
Zaki Hasan: Zaki's Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Zaki Hasan 2011
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I'm an academician and devoted to things that don't earn money but I watch people come into the profession on my path and gradually get off of it.
Margaret Heffernan: Willful Blindness: Money Changes The Way Doctors Think Margaret Heffernan 2011
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I'm an academician and devoted to things that don't earn money but I watch people come into the profession on my path and gradually get off of it.
Margaret Heffernan: Willful Blindness: Money Changes The Way Doctors Think Margaret Heffernan 2011
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