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# academic

«academic» in Mova's school dictionary: **to do with school, study and learning, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (academic); noun (an academic, academics)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Academic means to do with school, study and learning, especially reading, writing and maths rather than practical skills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#m1)

2) An academic is a person who teaches or does research at a university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#m2)

3) (formal) A question that is academic does not matter in real life because it will not change anything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school life: the academic year, academic results. In formal texts: academic writing. The phrase "it's academic" means it no longer matters. Phrases: academic year, academic work, academic success, purely academic.

### examples

- The academic year starts after the summer holidays in the UK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x1)
- She is very academic and loves books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x2)
- His uncle is an academic at a university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x3)
- Sport and academic subjects are both important. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x4)
- Whether we would have won is academic now; the game is over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x5)
- Academic writing uses formal words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x6)
- Our school is proud of its academic results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x7)
- He is good at practical things as well as academic ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/#x8)

### note

Starts with a vowel: "an academic". Pronounced ak-uh-DEM-ik. Noun: academy (a school), academia. Trap: the academic year does not start in January; in Australia and NZ it does start early in the calendar year, in the UK and USA in late summer.

### In the corpora

- ["Not the most academic" means not clever at school work; it is a polite way to put it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/9/)
- ["More practical than academic" means not good at school or books, but often good at doing things with the hands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/36-dim-and-round-the-bend/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «academic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/academic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.