ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does academic department mean? 

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

1. a division of a school that is responsible for a given subject

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A division of a school that is responsible for a given subject

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

department; section (a specialized division of a large organization)

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

anthropology department; department of anthropology (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology)

art department (the academic department responsible for teaching art and art appreciation)

biology department; department of biology (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in biology)

chemistry department; department of chemistry (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in chemistry)

department of computer science (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in computer science)

department of economics; economics department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in economics)

department of English; English department (the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature)

department of history; history department (the academic department responsible for teaching history)

department of linguistics; linguistics department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in linguistics)

department of mathematics; mathematics department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in mathematics)

department of philosophy; philosophy department (the academic department responsible for teaching philosophy)

department of physics; physics department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in physics)

department of music; music department (the academic department responsible for teaching music and music appreciation)

department of psychology; psychology department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in psychology)

department of sociology; sociology department (the academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology)