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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

/ ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə /

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of intelligentsia1

1905–10; < Russian intelligéntsia < Latin intelligentia intelligence
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Word History and Origins

Origin of intelligentsia1

C20: from Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intellegentia intelligence
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Example Sentences

She certainly knows how to court the intelligentsia; they rhapsodize when anyone says, “On the one hand, but on the other hand.”

In the morning, join the intelligentsia at Cafe Pamplona, a European-style coffeehouse, also by Harvard Square.

On the whole the English intelligentsia have opposed Hitler, but only at the price of accepting Stalin.

The liberal intelligentsia continued its search for a better national anthem.

The urban gentry and intelligentsia, though, disdained this voluntary migration.

Since 1912 that misguided intelligentsia has been given a large store of fresh ammunition.

They will go on firing and firing, while the people, including the real intelligentsia, will be better engaged.

As a matter of fact it was the Trentino intelligentsia which looked forward to annexation, and not, as a class, the peasants.

The intelligentsia in China has a very peculiar position, unlike that which it has in any other country.

It is science that makes the difference between our intellectual outlook and that of the Chinese intelligentsia.

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