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.
From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός, from Ἀκαδημία or Ἀκαδήμεια, the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy.
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