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academic

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Relating to scholarship, study, or educational institutions; also theoretical rather than practical.

The journal expects academic arguments to be supported by evidence.

Dictionary practice example.

In an academic seminar, students compared how two fictional neighborhoods organized their shared spaces using details from an assigned novel.