Academic ˌækəˈdemɪk Studying Practical Adjective Bre Students Return

• 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.

academic

1. connected with education, especially studying in schools and universities
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• 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. 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
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  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/teaching_and_learning/academic_1
• 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.

Extra Examples

• The writers’ approach is not overly academic.
• He retired from academic life and went into politics.
• I wasn’t sure I could cope with the academic demands of the course.
• It is regarded as the top academic institution in the city.
• Most of his questions were of an academic nature.
• Our courses cover a range of academic disciplines.
• She had a brilliant academic career.
• She had very few academic qualifications.
• The academic year usually starts in September.
• This university will do all it can to defend academic freedom.
• We are looking for practical experience as well as academic achievement.
• We need to combine academic and applied knowledge.
• academic research

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent.: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named.