of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution, especially one for higher education: academic requirements.
pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.
theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question;an academic discussion of a matter already decided.
learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.
conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.
acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.
Academic,of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.
noun
a student or teacher at a college or university.
a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.
Academic,a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.
academics,the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.
Origin of academic
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin Acadēmicus, from Greek Akadēmeikós. See academy, academe, -ic
This may not translate to anything where you’re from, but Ishaq’s nickname, largely because of a brilliant academic record, was Newton.
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Some experts have proposed leveling out the playing field by increasing government funding to academic labs for AI research.
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The academics surveyed nearly 1,000 venture capitalists—572 in the US and 381 elsewhere—and asked them to rate the health of the startups in their investment portfolios.
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Are you seeing more commercial pressure from academic presses for historians to sexy it up a bit?
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They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
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Academic freedom has been a hot debate within education circles.
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Wolfenden was an academic and seen by the establishment as a “safe pair of hands.”
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The academic, historic, and geopolitical nonsense that Khomeinism equals Iran has lasted long enough.
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Political, religious, academic, and social abuses were thrown on to the screen fearlessly.
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He received an academic education, studied law, and was admitted to the Lexington bar in 1797.
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The academic ideal was another and a fresh link that connected the nations together.
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He determined at once to give up art and to return to his academic studies.
Ole Bull|Sara C. Bull
His academic work there was continued, with slight interruptions, till 1261.
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British Dictionary definitions for academic
academic
/ (ˌækəˈdɛmɪk) /
adjective
belonging or relating to a place of learning, esp a college, university, or academy
of purely theoretical or speculative interestan academic argument
excessively concerned with intellectual matters and lacking experience of practical affairs
(esp of a schoolchild) having an aptitude for study
conforming to set rules and traditions; conventionalan academic painter
relating to studies such as languages, philosophy, and pure science, rather than applied, technical, or professional studies