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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Academic \Ac'a*dem"ic\, Academical \Ac'a*dem"ic*al\, adjective [L. academicus: cf. F. acad['e]migue. See {Academy}.]
1. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. ''Academic courses.'' --Warburton. ''Academical study.'' --Berkeley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Academic \Ac'a*dem"ic\, noun
1. One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. --Hume.
2. A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
academic
adjective
1: associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"
2: hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"
3: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects [syn: {donnish}, {pedantic}]
noun: an educator who works at a college or university [syn: {academician}, {faculty member}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "academic": abstract, armchair, book-learned, bookish, booky, chimerical, classroom, closet, collegiate, conjectural, cross-disciplinary, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, erudite, extramural, graduate, graduate-professional, hypothetic, hypothetical, ideal, idealistic, imaginary, impractical, interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, ivory-tower, learned, lettered, mandarin, moot, notional, owlish, pedagogic, pedagogical, pedantic, postgraduate, postulatory, preceptorial, preschool, professional, professorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, school, schoolish, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, speculative, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, theoretical, tutorial, university, unpractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary
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