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Definition of "academician" []

  • An academic. (noun)
  • A member of an art, literary, or scientific academy or society. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "academician" in a sentence
  • "If your father or mother were sick, you would go get a second opinion from an expert doctor, not from an academician, which is what he did."
  • "Professor Shtik was a local "academician" and member of the Writers Union who had made state-funded trips to Iowa to research"
  • "It wasn't until that film's closing moments that we were teased with an impending face-off between Holmes and the villainous James Moriarty, unassuming academician by day, world-beating megalomaniac by night."