academician

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CIDE DICTIONARY

academician, n. [F. académicien. See Academy.].

•  A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.  [1913 Webster]
•  A collegian.  Chesterfield.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

academician, n. a member of an Academy, esp. of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Acad{eacute}mie fran{ccedil}aise, or the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Etymology

F acad{eacute}micien (as ACADEMIC)

THESAURUS

academician

bookman, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, genius, giant of learning, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, student, walking encyclopedia

ROGET THESAURUS

academician

Scholar

N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.