HOW TO PRONOUNCE
academic
/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
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Stress the syllable before the final “ik.”
The third syllable has the strongest vowel, as in bed. The first syllable has a smaller beat; the final ik is lighter than the syllable before it.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The library supports academic research.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does academic mean?
adjective
- Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato.
- Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
- In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
More meanings (11)
adjective
- Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
- Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
- Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
- Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
- So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
noun
- A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
- 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.
- A member of the Academy; an academician.
- Academic dress; academicals.
- Academic studies.
- (archaic) A student in a college.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌækəˈdɛmɪk/
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See this word in context.
During the piping times of peace the utility of aircraft as weapons of offence was discussed freely in an academic manner.
It has been held by some that the Haggadah contains no popular legends, that it is wholly a factitious, academic product.
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The variations with which soil animals live, eat, digest, reproduce, attack, and defend themselves fills whole sections of academic science libraries.
Between an academic library and a monastic collection there were differences of character and in the beauty and value of the manuscripts.
Puritanic and academic taboo of sex in education and religion is as disastrous to human welfare as prostitution or the venereal scourges.