… Explanation & Definition:

Short explanation

Of or relating to education and scholarship.

Complete definition

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning.

Synonyms of academic

adjective: academical, scholastic, theoretical, theoretic, university; noun: academician, scholar, scientist, professor; plural: academicians, scholars, scientists, professors; related terms: educator, pedagog, pedagogue, theoretical.

… adjective: scientific, sciential, scholarly, doctrinal; noun: knowledge, learning, lore, skill, scholarship; plural: sciences, skills, lores, scholarship, knowledges, learnings.