See Also: ACADEMIC(finance)
academic(dictionary)
academic dissertations(medicine)
academic 2, noun(dictionary)
academic 1, adjective(dictionary)
degree, academic(encyclopedia)
academic year(dictionary)
Academic Hospital(health)
review, academic(medicine)
dissertations, academic(medicine)

academic (iou)



academic noun & adjective. In senses A.1, B.1 also Academic. M16.
[Old & mod. French academique or Latin academicus, from academia: see ACADEMY, -IC.]
A. noun.
1. A Platonist. M16.
2. A (now spec. senior) member of a university or similar institution; a person engaged or excelling in scholarly pursuits. L16.
b. In pl. = ACADEMICAL noun (the more usual term). E19.
3. = ACADEMICIAN 1. rare. M18.
4. In pl. Academic studies. US. L20.
B. adjective.
1. Of the school or philosophy of Plato; sceptical. L16.
2. Of or belonging to a university or other institution of higher learning; scholarly. L16.
academic year a period of nearly a year reckoned from the time of the main student intake, usu. from the beginning of the autumn term to the end of the summer term.
Oxford English Dictionary Such students wear a distinctive academic dress. H. Cecil The judge had succeeded at the practical side of the law and the professor at the academic.
3. Abstract, unpractical, merely theoretical. L19.
H. G. Wells All this discussion..isacademic The war has begun already. S. Hill Guessing how long they'd been dead as a question of academic interest.
4. Art. Conventional; idealizing; excessively formal. L19.
E. H. Gombrich The programme of idealizing, of 'beautifying' nature, according to the standards set by the classical statues. We call it the neo-classical or 'academic' programme.
academicism noun (a) a tenet of academic philosophy; (b) the state or quality of being academic: E17.
academicize verb trans. render (undesirably) academic M20.