<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Of or relating to a college, academy, school, or other educational institution: academic requirements.</li><li>Pertaining to areas of study that are not primarily vocational or applied, as the humanities or pure mathematics.</li><li>Theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.</li><li>Learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.</li><li>Conforming to set rules, standards, or traditions; conventional: academic painting.</li><li>Acquired by formal education, especially at a college or university: academic preparation for the ministry.</li><li>Of or relating to Academe or to the Platonic school of philosophy.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A student or teacher at a college or university.</li><li>A person who is academic in background, attitudes, methods, etc.: He was by temperament an academic, concerned with books and the arts.</li><li>A person who supports or advocates the Platonic school of philosophy.</li><li>Academics: the scholarly activities of a school or university, as classroom studies or research projects: more emphasis on academics and less on athletics.</li></ul>