academic

1. 1.

   an educator who works at a college or university

   Synonymsacademicianfaculty member

   Broadereducator

   Narrowerprofessor

Other forms of academic

plural

academics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about academic

What does academic mean?

academic means "associated with academia or an academy". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in academic?

academic has 4 syllables: ac-a-dem-ic. The stress falls on "dem". In IPA it is /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/.

What is another word for academic?

Close synonyms include donnish, pedantic, academician, faculty member. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is academic a common word?

academic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with academic?

3 words rhyme with academic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.