Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [capitalized] An Academic philosopher.
- noun A member of or a student in an academy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Academic philosopher.
- noun obsolete An academician.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
academic .
Etymologies
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French académiste, from académie ("academy").
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Examples
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If its descriptions of character had been given in the language of the philosopher or academist, what was intelligible to one age would have been perplexing or meaningless to the next.
John the Baptist 1888
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2. OK I accept Caplans argument, educated non-academist are more sensible than average, academics and intellectualls are less read the NYT about any economic issue, for example free trade or outsorcing.
Elite Folly and Selection Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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