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intelligentsia
[ in-tel-i-jent-see-uh, -gent- ]
plural noun
- intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as a cultural, social, or political elite.
intelligentsia
/ ɪˌɛɪˈɛԳٲɪə /
noun
- the intelligentsiathe educated or intellectual people in a society or community
intelligentsia
- Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of intelligentsia1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of intelligentsia1
Example Sentences
She said her career as a painter, printmaker, collage and stained-glass artist and teacher meant she mixed with the "intelligentsia of Swansea".
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.
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.
"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."
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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