How To Pronounce "Academic"

adjective
of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution:
academic requirements.

pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.

theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful:
an academic question;
an academic discussion of a matter already decided.

learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.

conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional:
academic painting.

acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university:
academic preparation for the ministry.

Academic, of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.

noun
a student or teacher at a college or university.

a person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.:
He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.

Academic, a person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.

academics, the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects:
more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.