{
    "term": "academic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with education, especially studying in schools and universities",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "high/low academic standards"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had a brilliant **academic career**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of this country's most prestigious **academic institutions**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "improving the **academic achievement** of all students"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The university is renowned throughout the world for its academic excellence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "academic research/researchers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are deeply committed to safeguarding **academic freedom**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He retired from academic life and went into politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The academic year usually starts in September."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is regarded as the top academic institution in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This university will do all it can to defend academic freedom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "academic research"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The enrolment criteria are geographical rather than academic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our courses cover a range of academic disciplines."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education", "Jobs"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "involving a lot of reading and studying rather than practical or technical skills",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a mixture of vocational and academic courses"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people whose skills are practical rather than academic"
                },
                {
                    "text": "academic qualifications/subjects"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are looking for practical experience as well as academic achievement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had very few academic qualifications."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writers' approach is not overly academic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to combine academic and applied knowledge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wasn't sure I could cope with the academic demands of the course."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["merely", "purely", "strictly"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "good at subjects involving a lot of reading and studying",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She wasn't very academic and hated school."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education", "Personal qualities"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "not connected to a real or practical situation and therefore not important",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's a **purely academic** question."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole thing's academic now—we can't win anyway."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of his questions were of an academic nature."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["merely", "purely", "strictly"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌækəˈdemɪk/",
                "audio": "ac/academic/academic__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌækəˈdemɪk/",
                "audio": "ac/academic/academic__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French académique or medieval Latin academicus, from academia, from Greek akadēmeia, from Akadēmos, the hero after whom Plato's garden was named."
}