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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
/ ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə /
noun
- the intelligentsiathe intelligentsia the educated or intellectual people in a society or community
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intelligentsia1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intelligentsia1
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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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