intelligentsia
intellectuals considered as a group or class, especially as a cultural, social, or political elite.
Origin of intelligentsia
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How to use intelligentsia in a sentence
She certainly knows how to court the intelligentsia; they rhapsodize when anyone says, “On the one hand, but on the other hand.”
Here's How to Dig Out of This 'Stupid Sh*t' U.S. Foreign Policy | Leslie H. Gelb | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 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.
Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National Anthem | Jefferson Morley | July 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe urban gentry and intelligentsia, though, disdained this voluntary migration.
The Triumph of Suburbia: Despite Downtown Hype, Americans Choose Sprawl | Joel Kotkin | April 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Since 1912 that misguided intelligentsia has been given a large store of fresh ammunition.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry BaerleinThey will go on firing and firing, while the people, including the real intelligentsia, will be better engaged.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry BaerleinAs a matter of fact it was the Trentino intelligentsia which looked forward to annexation, and not, as a class, the peasants.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry BaerleinThe intelligentsia in China has a very peculiar position, unlike that which it has in any other country.
The Problem of China | Bertrand RussellIt is science that makes the difference between our intellectual outlook and that of the Chinese intelligentsia.
The Problem of China | Bertrand Russell
British Dictionary definitions for intelligentsia
/ (ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə) /
the intelligentsia the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
Origin of intelligentsia
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for intelligentsia
[ (in-tel-uh-jent-see-uh) ]
Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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