academician
UK/əˌka.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩//ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
academician noun: a member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
Noun (1)
academician (plural academicians)
- A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
- One can learn more about the nature of our society by sharing in a small way the life of its victims than by interacting intellectually with its privileged academicians.1981 December 27, Dave Dellinger, quotee, Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 19
- 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.
- ‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 9
Noun (2) capitalized: Academician
Academician (plural Academicians)
- The title for someone who is an academician.
academician meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
academician in Hindi
- member of an academy
- अकदमीशियन akadmīśiyan
academician in Tamil
- கலைக் கழக உறுப்பினர், கல்வியாளர்
academician in Urdu
- استاد, معلم, پروفیسر
academician in Malayalam
- പണ്ഡിതസഭാംഗം
More languagesFewer languages
- academician in Arabic
- أَكَادِيمِيّ ʔakādīmiyy, أَكَادِيمِيَّة ʔakādīmiyya
- academician in Indonesian
- akademikus, akademisi
- academician in Thai
- นักวิชาการ nák-wí-chaa-gaan
- academician in Vietnamese
- viện sĩ
Synonyms of academician
Forms of academician
| plural | academicians |
|---|---|
| plural | Academicians |
Origin of academician
From academic + -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.
Words formed from academician
Words that rhyme with academician
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about academician
- What does academician mean?
- Academician means a member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
- What is academician in Hindi?
- Academician in Hindi is अकदमीशियन (akadmīśiyan). See Academician meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is academician?
- Academician is a noun.
- How do you pronounce academician?
- Academician is pronounced /əˌka.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of academician?
- The plural of academician is academicians.
Words near academician in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: academician (page history and authors); Academician (page history and authors); academician (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); academician (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); academician (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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