Synonyms of the word academic


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academic

  • adj. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
  • adj. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
  • adj. Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to practical or…
  • adj. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
  • adj. (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  • adj. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
  • adj. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
  • adj. Study of humanities topics rather than science and engineering.
  • n. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  • n. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged…
  • n. A member of the Academy; an academician.
  • n. (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
  • n. (plural only) Academic studies.

academician

  • n. (now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
  • n. A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the…

domain

  • n. A geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization.
  • n. A field or sphere of activity, influence or expertise.
  • n. A group of related items, topics, or subjects.
  • n. (mathematics) The set of all possible mathematical entities (points) where a given function is defined.
  • n. (mathematics, set theory) The set of input (argument) values for which a function is defined.
  • n. (mathematics) A ring with no zero divisors; that is, in which no product of nonzero elements is zero.
  • n. (mathematics, topology, analysis) An open and connected set in some topology. For example, the interval…
  • n. (computing, Internet) Any DNS domain name, particularly one which has been delegated and has become representative…
  • n. (computing, Internet) A collection of DNS or DNS-like domain names consisting of a delegated domain name…
  • n. (computing) A collection of information having to do with a domain, the computers named in the domain,…
  • n. (computing) The collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names.
  • n. (physics) A small region of a magnetic material with a consistent magnetization direction.
  • n. (computing) Such a region used as a data storage element in a bubble memory.
  • n. (data processing) A form of technical metadata that represent the type of a data item, its characteristics,…
  • n. (taxonomy) The highest rank in the classification of organisms, above kingdom; in the three-domain system,…
  • n. (biochemistry) A folded section of a protein molecule that has a discrete function.

donnish

  • adj. Characteristic of a (university) don.
  • adj. (of a person) Bookish, theoretical and pedantic, as opposed to practical.

educator

  • n. A person distinguished for his/her educational work.
  • n. A teacher.

pedagog

  • n. Alternative form of pedagogue.

pedagogue

  • n. A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young.
  • n. A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the…
  • n. (historical, Ancient Greece) A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them…

pedantic

  • adj. Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
  • adj. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
  • adj. Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.

scholarly

  • adj. Of or relating to scholars or scholarship.
  • adv. (US) In a scholarly manner.

theoretical

  • adj. Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.

world

  • n. (with "the") Human collective existence; existence in general.
  • n. The Universe.
  • n. (uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
  • n. (countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
  • n. (fiction, speculation) A realm, such as planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, specially…
  • n. An individual or group perspective or social setting.
  • n. (informal) A great amount.
  • n. (archaic) Age, era.
  • v. To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather…
  • v. To make real; to make worldly.

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