ACADEMIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does academic mean? 

• ACADEMIC (noun)
  The noun ACADEMIC has 1 sense:

1. an educator who works at a college or university

  Familiarity information: ACADEMIC used as a noun is very rare.

• ACADEMIC (adjective)
  The adjective ACADEMIC has 3 senses:

1. associated with academia or an academy

2. hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

3. marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

  Familiarity information: ACADEMIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACADEMIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An educator who works at a college or university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

academic; academician; faculty member

Hypernyms ("academic" is a kind of...):

educator; pedagog; pedagogue (someone who educates young people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academic"):

prof; professor (someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university)

Derivation:

academic (associated with academia or an academy)

• ACADEMIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Associated with academia or an academy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

academic gowns

Pertainym:

academia (the academic world)

Derivation:

academia (the academic world)

academic (an educator who works at a college or university)

academy (an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

Context example:

an academic question

Similar:

theoretical (concerned with theories rather than their practical applications)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

Synonyms:

academic; donnish; pedantic

Similar:

scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)

 Context examples 

Having obtained from this clerk a direction to the academic grove in question, I set out, the same afternoon, to visit my old schoolfellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The EDRN is a national network of academic and industry investigators with expertise in laboratory and clinical sciences, biostatistics, informatics, and public health.

(Early Detection Research Network, NCI Thesaurus)

The ACOSOG (Durham, NC) includes general and specialty surgeons, representatives of related oncologic disciplines and allied health professionals in academic medical centers and community practices throughout the US and foreign countries.

(American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, NCI Thesaurus)

Comprised of 80 of the leading academic and freestanding cancer research centers in the United States.

(Association of American Cancer Institutes, NCI Thesaurus)

Academics in South Korea had tested the vaccine in animals and it had prevented the virus from infecting fat cells.

(Scientists Find Virus Linked to Weight Gain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They also asked teachers to provide behavioral and academic information about each student.

(Children Who Nap Are Happier, Have Higher IQ, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Importantly, hangovers can lead to reduced productivity, impaired performance (including missing work or academic underperformance) and even risk to daily tasks such driving or operating heavy machinery.

(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)

The question of how seals navigate is more than academic.

(Antarctic seals may use Earth's magnetic field to navigate while hunting, NSF)

Doctor of Public Health is an academic degree in public health.

(Doctor of Public Health, NCI Thesaurus)

A global nonprofit bioscience organization (located at 10801 University Boulevard, Manassas, VA 20110-2209 703-365-2700) that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations around the world.

(ATCC, NCI Thesaurus)