universitair — meaning in English
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English meaning
- academic adj Relating to schools, universities, or formal education and scholarship.
- university noun An institution of higher education offering degrees, teaching, and research.
Senses
universitair is used for these senses in English:
- academic Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. [from late 16th century]
- academic A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
- university Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
academic — full definition
- adj Relating to schools, universities, or formal education and scholarship.
- adj Theoretical rather than practical; of no real practical consequence.
- noun A person who works or studies at a university, especially as a teacher or researcher.