academician

See also: Academician

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /əˌka.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/, /ˌa.kə.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/, /əˌkæ.dəˈmɪ.ʃn̩/
Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

academician (plural academicians)

(now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. [from 17th c.]
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. [from 17th c.]
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, page 9:
  ‘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.’

Synonyms

member of university faculty

academian

academic

Derived terms

academicianship

Related terms

terms related to academician

academy

academia

Translations

member of an academy

Arabic: أَكَادِيمِيّ‎ m (ʾakādīmiyy)
Catalan: acadèmic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 院士 (zh) (yuànshì)
Dutch: academielid m
Esperanto: akademiano
Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
French: académicien (fr) m
German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f
Ido: akademiano (io)
Irish: acadamhaí m, ball d'acadamh m

Italian: accademico (it)
Japanese: アカデミー会員 (akademī kaiin)
Korean: 학술 위원 (haksul wiwon)
Latvian: akadēmiķis m, akadēmiķe f
Macedonian: акаде́мик m (akadémik)
Norman: académicien m (Jersey)
Portuguese: acadêmico (pt)
Romanian: academician (ro) m, academiciană (ro) f
Russian: акаде́мик (ru) m (akadémik)
Spanish: académico (es) m, académica (es) f, academista (es) m or f
Swedish: akademiledamot (sv), akademimedlem

collegian

Chinese:
Mandarin: 大學生 (zh), 大学生 (zh) (dàxuéshēng)
Dutch: academicus (nl) m
Finnish: akateemikko (fi)

German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f, Student (de) m, Studentin (de) f
Japanese: 学生 (ja) (がくせい, gakusei), 大学生 (ja) (だいがくせい, gakusei), 学徒 (ja) (がくと, gakuto)
Russian: студе́нт (ru) m (studént), студе́нтка (ru) f (studéntka)
Thai: นักวิชาการ (th) (nák-wí-chaa-gaan)

member faculty

Finnish: akateemikko (fi)
German: Akademiker (de) m, Akademikerin (de) f
Japanese: 学者 (ja) (がくしゃ, gakusha)

Russian: преподава́тель (ru) m (prepodavátelʹ), преподава́тельница (ru) f (prepodavátelʹnica), профе́ссор (ru) m (proféssor)
Thai: นักวิชาการ (th) (nák-wí-chaa-gaan)

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Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} אקדמאי‎ m (aqademai), ^{(please verify)} אקדמאית‎ f (aqademait)
Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} akademiker (no), ^{(please verify)} medlem (no) n, ^{(please verify)} av et akademi

Spanish: ^{(please verify)} académico (es) m

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