academic

1. academic (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.

Example: the academic sect or philosophy

2. academic (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.

Example: But unhappily, by too short a view of things, you have been apt to mistake the completion of your academic courses for the completion of your theologic studies: and then, by a false modesty, have despaired of knowing more than you would suffer those august places of your education to teach you.

3. academic (adj) — sense 3

Definition: In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.

Example: Programs of work should provide students the opportunities to demonstrate both academic and vocational competence attainment.

4. academic (noun) — sense 4

Definition: A follower of Plato, a Platonist.

5. academic (noun) — sense 5

Definition: A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

Example: Academics[…]see integrated systems for collecting, processing and acting on data as offering a “second electrification” to the world’s metropolises.

6. academic (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A member of the Academy; an academician.

Example: Carneades the academick, when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].