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How to pronounce academic in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms academician, faculty member
Type of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
Has types prof, professor
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Synonyms donnish, pedantic
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an academic discussion.
an academic question.
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Derivation academia, academy


the academic curriculum.
academic gowns.

Examples of academic

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There are increasing and overwhelming academic pressures on children these days.
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Every coach had it, the academic advisor had it, the athletic department had it.
From the freep.com
They might come while she's reading-from an academic journal to People magazine.
From the online.wsj.com
The school offers 150 undergraduate degree programs within 11 academic colleges.
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The seminary has academic offices and classrooms in the basement of the library.
From the kentucky.com
These books fall into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory.
From the time.com
The Internet also raises more issues for academic integrity in higher education.
From the post-gazette.com
If you want to attack the root cause of low academic performance, think poverty.
From the forbes.com
There is also a significant disconnect between academic accounting and practice.
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  • Associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"
  • Academician: an educator who works at a college or university
  • Hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
  • Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
  • (academicism) scholasticism: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
  • Academia is the internationally recognized establishment of professional scholars and students, usually centered on colleges and universities, who are engaged in higher education and research.
  • (Academia (publishing house)) Academia (from Platonic Academy) was a Soviet publishing house prior to fusion with Goslitizdat. ...
  • A member of the Academy; a follower of Plato, a Platonist; A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician; A person who attends an academy; Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or ...
  • (Academics) Basic, general areas of study such as English, mathematics, science, social studies, foreign language, etc., as opposed to strictly technical or vocational courses. High school success in these core subjects is used as a predictor of success in college.