INTELLIGENTSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intelligentsia mean? 

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

1. an educated and intellectual elite

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTELLIGENTSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An educated and intellectual elite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

clerisy; intelligentsia

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

elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

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

culturati (people interested in culture and cultural activities)

literati (the literary intelligentsia)