academic

Forms

1.Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
2.Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- It was left to the motor industry, half a century later, to destroy Oxford's academic calm.
3.In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
- Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.
- Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial.
4.Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
- For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.
- The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.

1.A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
2.A member of the Academy; an academician.
- Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
3.A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
- Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.
4.Academic dress; academicals.

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Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)