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adjective
1.
of or pertaining to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
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pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
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theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
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learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
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EXPANDconforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
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acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
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COLLAPSE(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
noun
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a student or teacher at a college or university.
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a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
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(initial capital letter) a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
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academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
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Word Origin & History
academic
1580s, "relating to an academy," also "collegiate, scholarly," from L. academicus, from academia (see academy). Meaning "theoretical, not practical, not leading to a decision" (such as university debates or classroom legal exercises) is from 1886. Academic freedom is attested from 1901.
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