academician

From academic +‎ -ian (“one skilled in”), partly after French académicien.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˌka.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, /ˌa.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæ.kə.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/, /əˌkæ.dəˈmɪʃ.n̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

academician (plural academicians)

1. (now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1981 December 27, Dave Dellinger, quotee, Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 19:

     One can learn more about the nature of our society by sharing in a small way the life of its victims than by interacting intellectually with its privileged academicians.

2. A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts. [from 17th c.]
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 9:

     ‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’

• academicianship

Borrowed from French académicien. By surface analysis, academic +‎ -ian.

academician m (plural academicieni, feminine equivalent academiciană)

1. academician