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Definition of academic : 1. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
2. Alt. of Academical
3. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Synonyms:

academician, pedantical, scholastic, teach, theoretic, schoolman, donnish, attitude, inkhorn, abstract, speculative, formalistic, flexible, faculty member, educational, hypothetical

learned, literary, erudite, bookish, pedantic, theoretical, scholarly

intellectual, doctor, professor, master, philosopher, scholar, expert, genius, student

Usage examples:

• That wretched academic training of mine does nothing but harm. - "Look Back on Happiness", Knut Hamsun.
• For the interest of the case was not merely academic. - "The Mystery of 31 New Inn", R. Austin Freeman.
• This remark made the Academic Lion look like a Sphinx, as if he knew something but did not want to tell. - "The Valley of Vision", Henry Van Dyke.