Academic
[ækə'demɪk] or [,ækə'dɛmɪk]
Definition
(adj.) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; 'an academic discussion'; 'an academic question' .
(adj.) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects .
(adj.) associated with academia or an academy; 'the academic curriculum'; 'academic gowns' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Academical
(n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
(n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Scholastic, literary, lettered.
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Definition
n. a Platonic philosopher: a student in a college.
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Examples
- Moreover, the methods used for effective teaching of the languages were well developed; the inertia of academic custom was on their side. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They put the stamp of their genius on certain inhuman practices, and of course it has been the part of the academic mind to imitate them ever since. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Politics, religion, science are subject to it,--in politics we call it conservative, in religion orthodox, in science we describe it as academic. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He retired from academic life, and was elected Democratic Governor of New Jersey in 1910. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For the academic intelligence abstract and abstruse mathematics are tonic and an end in themselves. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The proverbial separation of town and gown, the cultivation of academic seclusion, operate in this direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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