academician

ac·a·de·mi·cian

A0034000 (ăk′ə-də-mĭsh′ən, ə-kăd′ə-)n.1. An academic.2. A member of an art, literary, or scientific academy or society.

academician

(əˌkædəˈmɪʃən; ˌækədə-) n (Education) a member of an academy (sense 1)

ac•a•de•mi•cian

(ˌæk ə dəˈmɪʃ ən, əˌkæd ə-)

n. 1. a member of an association or institution for the advancement of arts, sciences, or letters. 2. a follower or promoter of traditional rules or trends in philosophy, art, or literature. [1740–50; < French académicien]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	academician - someone elected to honorary membership in an academyhonorary society, academy - an institution for the advancement of art or science or literaturehonoree - a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments
	2.	academician - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputationschoolmanbookman, scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines
	3.	academician - an educator who works at a college or universityacademic, faculty membereducator, pedagog, pedagogue - someone who educates young peopleprof, professor - someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

Translations

académicienакадемик

Academician

enUS

Academician

in the USSR a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the academies of sciences of the Union republics, and several branch academies. Full members of republic academies of sciences and several branch academies are given the title of the academy to which they belong-for example, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR or Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Academicians are chosen by a general meeting of a given academy. The right to nominate candidates and full members to an academy is granted to scholarly institutions, social organizations, and individual scholars. The Academy of Sciences of the USSR has the ranks of honorary academician and foreign member; the academies of sciences of the Union republics have the rank of honorary member.

In prerevolutionary Russia the rank of academician was granted not only to full members of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences but also to the professors of the Military-Medical Academy and to member artists of the Academy of Arts. The rank of honorary academician was granted to writers chosen by the members of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences committee on belles-lettres.

The rank of academician also exists in several academies in socialist countries.

academician

Related to academician: academia, Corresponding Member

noun

Synonyms for academician

noun someone elected to honorary membership in an academy

Related Words

honorary society
academy
honoree

noun a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

Synonyms

schoolman

Related Words

bookman
scholar
scholarly person
student

noun an educator who works at a college or university

Synonyms

academic
faculty member

Related Words

educator
pedagog
pedagogue
prof
professor