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My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
Alison Bechdel

Meaning of "intelligentsia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTELLIGENTSIA

From Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intellegentiaintelligence.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INTELLIGENTSIA

intelligentsia  [ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTELLIGENTSIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Intelligentsia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INTELLIGENTSIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia, from Latin: intellegentia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental labour aimed at disseminating culture. This therefore might include everyone from artists to school teachers. Intelligentsia is the subject of active polemics concerning its own role in the development of modern society not always positive historically, often contributing to higher degree of progress, but also to its backward movement. In a social sense, the stratum of intelligentsia arose first in Russian-controlled Poland during the age of Partitions. The term was borrowed from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in around the 1840s, to describe the educated and professionally active segment of patriotic bourgeoisie able to become the spiritual leaders of the country ruled by a foreign power in an authoritarian way. Deprived of socio-political influence in the form of enterprises or any "effective levers of economic development", the educated intelligentsia became a characteristic indicator of the East-European cultural periphery unlike the German Bildungsbürgertum or the British professions for whom leading societal roles were available.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTELLIGENTSIA


artsier
ˈɑːtsɪə
bartsia
ˈbɑːtsɪə
bilharzia
bɪlˈhɑːtsɪə
deutzia
ˈdjuːtsɪə
eschscholtzia
ɛˈʃɒltsɪə
eschscholzia
ɛˈʃɒltsɪə
fatsia
ˈfætsɪə
Florentia
flɒˈrɛntsɪə
glitzier
ˈɡlɪtsɪə
intelligentzia
ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə
rickettsia
rɪˈkɛtsɪə
strelitzia
strɛˈlɪtsɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTELLIGENTSIA

intelligence
intelligence agency
intelligence agent
Intelligence Corps
intelligence gathering
Intelligence officer
intelligence quotient
Intelligence Service
intelligence test
intelligence work
intelligencer
intelligent
intelligent card
intelligent design
intelligent knowledge-based system
intelligent terminal
intelligential
intelligently
intelligentzia
intelligibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTELLIGENTSIA

amnesia
Anastasia
anesthesia
Asia
Bahasa Indonesia
Central Asia
fantasia
French Polynesia
fuchsia
Indonesia
Malaysia
Micronesia
ossia
Persia
Polynesia
prosopagnosia
Russia
Southeast Asia
the intelligentsia
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Synonyms and antonyms of intelligentsia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INTELLIGENTSIA»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «intelligentsia» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of intelligentsia

Translation of «intelligentsia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTELLIGENTSIA

Find out the translation of intelligentsia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of intelligentsia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «intelligentsia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

知识阶层
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intelectualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

intelligentsia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बुद्धिजीवियों
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المثقفين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

интеллигенция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intelectuais
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বুদ্ধিজীবী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intelligentsia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inteligensia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Intelligenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

知識人階級
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지식계급
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inteligensia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người thông minh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அறிவுஜீவிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बुद्धीवादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aydınlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intellighenzia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inteligencja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інтелігенція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intelectualitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διανόησης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

intelligentsia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

intellektuella
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

intelligentsiaen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of intelligentsia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGENTSIA»

The term «intelligentsia» is regularly used and occupies the 78.474 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGENTSIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «intelligentsia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «intelligentsia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about intelligentsia

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9 QUOTES WITH «INTELLIGENTSIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word intelligentsia.
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Diane Abbott
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
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Stanley Baldwin
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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Alison Bechdel
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
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Louis MacNeice
Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.
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Louis MacNeice
Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.
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Ralph Nader
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Bobby Seale
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
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Hu Shih
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
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Lech Walesa
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTELLIGENTSIA»

Discover the use of intelligentsia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to intelligentsia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Russian Intelligentsia
Is the Confucian tradition compatible with the Western understanding of human rights?
Andreĭ Sini͡avskiĭ, 1997
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Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian ...
Personal faith became the subject of intense scrutiny as individuals debated the existence of God and the immortality of the soul, debates reflected in the best-known novels of the day.
Victoria Frede, 2011
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Dead Again: The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism
Describes how Russian intellectuals strove to retain their integrity under communism, discusses how they have attempted to adapt to a new society that ignores them, and considers the situation of the youngest generation of graduates
Masha Gessen, 1997
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Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Lʹviv: Narratives, ...
This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context.
Eleonora Narvselius, 2012
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Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in ...
The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth century diverged from their male counterparts, describes the forces that led women to rebel, ...
Barbara Alpern Engel, 2000
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Origins of the Russian intelligentsia: the ...
Marc Raeff investigates the early development of the Russian intelligentsia, a unique social and political force that was instrumental in westernizing its country and fermenting the revolutionary movement.
Marc Raeff, 1966
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Indonesian Muslim Intelligentsia and Power
Presents a genealogy of the social networks and power struggles of the major influential group of Indonesian educated Muslims called 'intelligentsia'.
Yudi Latif, 2008
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Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia
Geert Lovink interviews an international group of artists, critics, and theorists on aesthetic, cultural, and political aspects of new media.
Geert Lovink, 2004
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Colonial Subjects: An African Intelligentsia and Atlantic Ideas
Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.
Philip Serge Zachernuk, 2000
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Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and ...
Focuses on the metaphorical role of the bride that Russia often plays in literature, as well as the role the intelligentsia plays as Russia's rejected or ineffectual suitor, in a book that covers this metaphor from its prehistory in ...
Ellen Rutten, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTELLIGENTSIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term intelligentsia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Western Lit, shot to death by 'trigger warnings' – POLITICO
European intelligentsia used to ruthlessly mock this type of censoriousness masquerading as sensitivity. Because until the mainstreaming of ... «Politico, Jul 15»
2
The Freedom Principle review – an astounding fusion of jazz and art …
Free jazz found an especially receptive audience in France in the years after 1968, where a Gauloise-puffing leftist intelligentsia considered it a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
On criticism and censorship | The Australian
The at-times irrational attitude towards Abbott that prevails among sections of the green-left intelligentsia was evident on the ABC's Q&A ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Beverly Hills Cycling Classic Steps Off Friday Afternoon
"The amateurs in the Chicago area are sort of champing at the bit to race in Beverly," said Marco Colbert, race director for the Intelligentsia Cup. «DNAinfo, Jul 15»
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Silver sheen to zakat this year - The Times of India
Muslim intelligentsia clerics assert on donating zakat to support the cause of education. "Considering the condition of illiteracy in India, it is best ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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What The Iran Deal, Built On Mistrust, Means For Russia
The U.S. mainstream media and intelligentsia working within the constellation of U.S. interests have launched an anti-Russian information ... «Mintpress News, Jul 15»
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Nigerian Tertiary Institutions Should Start Footing Own Bills
If an illiterate slave never complained of inheriting a huge debt, then why is our intelligentsia now complaining? When we talk of half-baked graduates, I still ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
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Lula, from Magician to Sharp Shooter - Upside Down World
The director of a magazine defined as “a space for reflection by the Brazilian intelligentsia”, explained the current situation as a result of ... «Upside Down World, Jul 15»
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Modi-Sharif bonhomie under Strain - The Indian Panorama
The backlash from the Pakistan media and 'intelligentsia' was expected and instant. Pakistan TV anchors and debaters cried foul and forced ... «The Indian Panorama, Jul 15»
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Ted Cruz Dukes It Out With The New York Times
... because it brings increased sales and higher visibility among the liberal intelligentsia who read the Times cover to cover every morning. «Forbes, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Intelligentsia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/intelligentsia>. Apr 2024 ».
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