academics

Noun

academic (plural academics)

1. (capitalized, usually) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
2. 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.
   • Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.2013 September 7, “The multiplexed metropolis”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852
3. A member of the Academy; an academician.
   • Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
4. (archaic) A student in a college.
5. (plural, plural-only) Academic dress; academicals.
6. (plural, plural-only) Academic studies.
   • Many spoke of an intense fear of failing one’s academics at university, which can both be highly motivating to secure academic success (sometimes at the cost of socialising), but can also immobilise one’s desire to try harder as it can be rather disappointing if one does not succeed. […] Many...2021 July 25, Jiedi Lei, and Ailsa Russell, “Understanding the role of self-determination in shaping university experiences for autistic and typically developing students in the United Kingdom”, in...

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