academic

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ac=a=dem=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

academic, a. [L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy.].

•  Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.  [1913 Webster]
•  Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.  [1913 Webster]

academic, n. 

•  One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.  Hume.  [1913 Webster]
•  A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

academic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a scholarly; to do with learning. b of or relating to a scholarly institution (academic dress).
2 abstract; theoretical; not of practical relevance.
3 Art conventional, over-formal.
4 a of or concerning Plato's philosophy. b sceptical.
--n. a teacher or scholar in a university or institute of higher education.

Idiom

academic year a period of nearly a year reckoned from the time of the main student intake, usu. from the beginning of the autumn term to the end of the summer term.

Derivative

academically adv.

Etymology

F acad{eacute}mique or L academicus (as ACADEMY)

THESAURUS

academic

abstract, armchair, book-learned, bookish, booky, chimerical, classroom, closet, collegiate, conjectural, cross-disciplinary, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, erudite, extramural, graduate, graduate-professional, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, imaginary, impractical, interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, ivory-tower, learned, lettered, mandarin, moot, notional, owlish, pedagogic, pedagogical, pedantic, postgraduate, postulatory, preceptorial, preschool, professional, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, school, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, speculative, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, theoretical, tutorial, university, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary

ROGET THESAURUS

academic

Supposition

N supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum, theory, thesis, theorem, data, proposition, position, proposal, presumption, divination, conjecture, guess, guesswork, speculation, rough guess, shot, shot in the dark, conjecturality, surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, estimate, approximation (nearness), inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression, bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion, association of ideas, (analogy), metonym, metonymy, simile (metaphor), conceit, idea, thought, original idea, invention (imagination), supposing, given, mooted, postulatory, assumed, supposititious, suppositive, suppositious, gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative, suppositional, suggestive, allusive, if, if so be, an, on the supposition, ex hypothesi, in the case, in the event of, quasi, as if, provided, perhaps, for aught one knows.

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.

School

N school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyceum, institute, institution, palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar, day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school, school of art, kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory, pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo, lecture room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune, school book, horn book, text book, grammar, primer, abecedary, rudiments, manual, vade mecum, encyclopedia, cyclopedia, Lindley Murray, Cocker, dictionary, lexicon, professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship, chair, School Board Council of Education, Board of Education, Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies, Textbook Committee, propaganda, scholastic, academic, collegiate, educational, ex cathedra.