Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of an academy; a student in a university or college.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of an academy, university, or college.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Any academian who wouldacquiesce to thisreactionary, anti-evolutionary drivel is betraying his heritage and Truth and might as well annihilate his or herself.
This Is What I Have to Put Up With: A Brainwash Campaign Sponsored by David Horowitz 2008
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Any academian who wouldacquiesce to thisreactionary, anti-evolutionary drivel is betraying his heritage and Truth and might as well annihilate his or herself.
This Is What I Have to Put Up With: A Brainwash Campaign Sponsored by David Horowitz 2008
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Any academian who wouldacquiesce to thisreactionary, anti-evolutionary drivel is betraying his heritage and Truth and might as well annihilate his or herself.
This Is What I Have to Put Up With: A Brainwash Campaign Sponsored by David Horowitz 2008
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It would be nice if those graphs were normalized for work hours per year (postdocs I know work about twice as many hours per year as teachers for example), total benefits, job security, flexible hours … Just for kicks, compare total money earned by a high school teacher the first 15 years out of college versus an aspiring academian.
It’s All About the Benjamins Julianne 2007
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It's a rather high toll in more ways than one, to suffer the harsh academian climate.
I can't fold shirts. Fathorse 2007
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The prospect of a seventy-year old academian walking door-to-door in the Florida heat should not be welcomed by local Democrats eager to win this seat back from the GOP.
To run or not to run? Heller faces a decision in H-52 Peter Schorsch 2006
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The prospect of a seventy-year old academian walking door-to-door in the Florida heat should not be welcomed by local Democrats eager to win this seat back from the GOP.
Archive 2006-05-01 Peter Schorsch 2006
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Lowder is neither an academian nor a coach, so he demonstrated his deep love for Auburn the only good and selfless way he can, by donating immense sums of money to his beloved alma mater, which is no less than what other contributing legends have done.
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The other academian queried was Lisa Sowle Cahill, a self-avowed "gospel feminist."
Spero News 2009
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Tyler Colman a.k.a. Dr. Vino, published his second non-fiction wine book of 2008 this past week - a notable achievement for anybody, let alone an academian with a wildly popular wine blog and a family.
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