universitaire — meaning in English

English meaning

• academic adj Relating to schools, universities, or formal education and scholarship.
• scholarly adj Relating to serious academic study, or showing the careful, learned qualities of a scholar.

Senses

universitaire 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.]
• scholarly Of or relating to scholastics or scholarship.

academic — full definition

1. adj Relating to schools, universities, or formal education and scholarship.
2. adj Theoretical rather than practical; of no real practical consequence.
3. noun A person who works or studies at a university, especially as a teacher or researcher.

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