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Academician

//ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. US

    "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."

  2. 2
    The title for someone who is an academician.
  3. 3
    an educator who works at a college or university wordnet
  4. 4
    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.’"

  5. 5
    a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation wordnet
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  1. 6
    someone elected to honorary membership in an academy wordnet

Etymology

From academic + -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.

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