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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Being scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning.
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the '''academic''' sect or philosophy.
- Conforming to set rules and traditions.
- Having an aptitude for study.
- pejorative Having no practical importance.
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Noun:
- A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
- A person who attends an academy.
- One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
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