Synonyms of the word

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…

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.

bookman

• n. (Old English Law) One who held bookland.
• n. A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student; one who is more familiar with books than with people…
• n. One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.

educator

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

honoree

• n. One who receives an honor or award.

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…

scholar

• n. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
• n. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
• n. A learned person; a bookman.

schoolman

• n. (historical) A medieval writer or scholar focusing on the subjects taught at universities (such as theology,…

student

• n. A person who studies or learns about a particular academic subject.
• n. (figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
• n. A person enrolled at a university.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) A schoolchild.