academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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(adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
(adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
(noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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(noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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(noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
(noun) a school for special training | - |
(noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
arcade | (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: colonnade |
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(noun) a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side | - |
barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
(verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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brocade | (noun) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern | - |
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(verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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(noun) the close of a musical section | - |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
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cadet | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: plebe |
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cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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cascade | (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: shower |
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(noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units | - |
(noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls | - |
(verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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decade | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, ten, tenner, X |
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(noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decennary, decennium |
decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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(adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
(noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
facade | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: frontage, frontal |
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(noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant | Synonyms: window dressing |
motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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(noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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