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akademik — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • academic adj Relating to schools, universities, or formal education and scholarship.
  • academician noun A teacher or scholar, especially a senior one, working at a university or college.
  • dormitory noun A large room or building with many beds, used for communal sleeping, especially by students.

Senses

akademik is used for these senses in English:

  • academic (usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist. [First attested in the mid 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.]
  • academician A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts. [from 17th c.]
  • dormitory A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
  • dormitory A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
  • hall of residence (UK) A building for college or university students to live in.

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.

academician — full definition

  1. noun A teacher or scholar, especially a senior one, working at a university or college.
  2. noun A person who belongs to an academy, a society set up to support science, art or literature.
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