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intelligentsia

[ in-tel-i-jent-see-uh, -gent- ]

plural noun

  1. intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as a cultural, social, or political elite.


intelligentsia

/ ɪ²ÔËŒ³ÙÉ›±ôɪˈ»åÏôÉ›²Ô³Ù²õɪə /

noun

  1. the intelligentsia
    the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

intelligentsia

  1. Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of intelligentsia1

1905–10; < Russian ¾±²Ô³Ù±ð±ô±ô¾±²µÃ©²Ô³Ù²õ¾±²¹ < Latin intelligentia intelligence
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of intelligentsia1

C20: from Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intellegentia intelligence
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She said her career as a painter, printmaker, collage and stained-glass artist and teacher meant she mixed with the "intelligentsia of Swansea".

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His bold and at times brash style, rejecting the more staid political rhetoric of Nandi-Ndaitwah, has seen him win support among business people and the growing urban intelligentsia.

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In the succession of scapegoats chosen by the followers of this tradition of Know-Nothingism, the intelligentsia have at last in our time found a place.

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"I think the people who live here are a somewhat different community because it’s the intelligentsia," she says, "educated people who can’t live without the arts."

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It's disconcerting to realize that the right-wing legal intelligentsia is infected with Fox News Brain Rot all the way to the top.

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