academic
US: /ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
UK: /ˌækədˈɛmɪk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
academic /,ækə'demik/- tính từ
- (thuộc) học viện; (thuộc) trường đại học
- (thuộc) viện hàn lâm
- có tính chất học thuật
- an academic debate: một cuộc tranh luận có tính chất học thuật
- lý thuyết suông, trừu tượng, không thực tế
- an academic question: một vấn đề trừu tượng, một vấn đề không thực tế
- (văn nghệ) kinh viện
- academic painting: hội hoạ kinh viện
- (thuộc) trường phái triết học Pla-ton
- danh từ
- hội viên học viện
- viện sĩ
- người quá nệ kinh viện
- (số nhiều) lập luận hoàn toàn lý thuyết
- (số nhiều) mũ áo đại học (của giáo sư và học sinh đại học ở Anh)
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun+ adjective
1 [usually before noun] connected with education, especially studying in schools and universities: The students return in October for the start of the new academic year. + high / low academic standards + an academic career + The enrolment criteria are geographical rather than academic.
2 [usually before noun] involving a lot of reading and studying rather than practical or technical skills: academic subjects / qualifications
3 good at subjects involving a lot of reading and studying: She wasn't very academic and hated school.
4 not connected to a real or practical situation and therefore not important: It is a purely academic question. + The whole thing's academic now-we can't win anyway.
academically adverb: You have to do well academically to get into medical school. + He wasn't very well qualified academically but had a lot of experience.
+ noun
a person who teaches and/or does research at a university or college
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 scholastic, collegiate; scholarly, learned, lettered, erudite:
Green's academic background qualifies him for the professorship. The university began publishing academic journals in the 19th century.
2 theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural, speculative, abstract; ivory-tower, visionary, idealistic; impractical, unrealistic, unpractical:
The car doesn't run, so the question of miles per gallon is purely academic.
Collocation
VERBS
be | become
ADV.
merely, purely, strictly
The distinction being made is purely academic.
| largely, rather, somewhat
Concise dictionary
academics‚ækə'demɪknoun
+an educator who works at a college or university
adj.
+associated with academia or an academy
+hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
+marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
