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PRONUNCIATION OF INTELLIGENTZIA

intelligentzia  [ɪnˌtɛlɪˈdʒɛntsɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTELLIGENTZIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Intelligentzia 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 INTELLIGENTZIA 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 INTELLIGENTZIA


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTELLIGENTZIA

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
intelligentsia
intelligibility

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTELLIGENTZIA

Abkhazia
albizia
albizzia
Algeria
Arabia
Asia
Australia
Austria
Bahasa Indonesia
Bolivia
Bosnia
Bulgaria
California
Gorizia
Kirghizia
Kirgizia
La Spezia
razzia
trapezia
Venezia

Synonyms and antonyms of intelligentzia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «intelligentzia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTELLIGENTZIA

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Translator English - Chinese

intelligentzia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intelligentzia
570 millions of speakers

English

intelligentzia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

intelligentzia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

intelligentzia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

интеллигенция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

intelligentzia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

intelligentzia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

intelligentsia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Intelligentzia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

intelligentzia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

intelligentzia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

intelligentzia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Intelligentzia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có khiếu thông minh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

intelligentzia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बुद्धिमानता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aydınlar sınıfı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intellighenzia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

intelligentzia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інтелігенція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intelligentzia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

intelligentzia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

intellectuelen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

intelligentzia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

intelligentzia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of intelligentzia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGENTZIA»

The term «intelligentzia» is used very little and occupies the 172.547 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGENTZIA» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTELLIGENTZIA»

Discover the use of intelligentzia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to intelligentzia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social ...
that crude European varnish on the surface of a blunt unwavering tyranny, which prevailed in Russia with the establishment of the Imperial Duma. The process of adaptation on the part of the intelligentzia to the seemingly inevitable order of ...
‎1919
2
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
The process of adaptation on the part of the intelligentzia to the seemingly inevitable order of things was in reality very rapid. Even before the last shot of the "punitive expeditions" reechoed in the Russian villages, the intelligentzia was already ...
Edmund Janes James, Roland Post Falkner, Henry Rogers Seager, 1919
3
The New Republic
On the one hand, sheer economic necessity had compelled most of the intelligentzia to look for jobs, and since all the jobs were concentrated in the hands of the government, the intelligentzia perforce became part of the Soviet regime. On the ...
‎1921
4
Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History
When he makes the old intelligentzia give instruction in the new schools, the training grounds of the new intelligentzia, he is animated by the same spirit of revenge which he experienced when he made the manager of an old private firm  ...
Tony Michels, 2012
5
Russia Before The 'Radiant Future': Essays in Modern ...
The great majority of the intelligentzia [in France] are on the side of Zola and believe in the innocence of Dreyfus.”63 “Intelligentsia” here clearly stands for “ intellectuals”; note also that for Chekhov this is not a unique Russian phenomenon.
Michael Confino, 2011
6
"Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean ...
And they think naturally, that the militant leaders of the intelligentzia must feel and express the spirit of revolt that is slumbering in the inarticulate Negro masses, precisely as the emancipation movement of the Russian masses had passed ...
Louis J. Parascandola, 2005
7
Dumb-Bell of Brookfield, Pocono Shot, and Other Great Dog ...
After sitting through one or two of these plays, you wonder how in God's name even the intelligentzia can chatter and flutter over such stuff. But these people are sick, primarily in body and consequently in mind. The Russians are sick men ...
John Taintor Foote, Timothy Foote, 1993
8
The Crisis
In Petrograd the meetings of the intelligentzia seemed more formal and inclusive. There were such notable men there as Chukovsky the critic, Eugene Zamiatan the celebrated novelist and Maishack the poet and translator of Kipling. The artist  ...
9
Framing Pieces : Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and ...
He rages to Douglas, also in 1936: "A pimping pseudo intelligentzia which thinks a subject which, provably, interested Aristotle, Dante, and/or almost all the best minds recorded in history, is something which I as a 'poet' ought not to soil me ...
John Whittier-Ferguson Assistant Professor of English University of Michigan, 1996
10
The Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel 1847-1920
The commoners were known as the Intelligentzia, a designation which they themselves adopted. They differed in many respects from the bourgeoisie of Europe. In the Western countries the bourgeoisie possessed a culture which was already ...

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTELLIGENTZIA»

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La del estribo
... la sección de discos de la Librería Ghandi, entonces parada indispensable para el aprovisionamiento de la intelligentzia del Distrito Federal. «El País.com, Aug 12»
2
'Where Is the Uprising from the Left?'
There seems to be this idea out there among the American liberal intelligentzia that working and middle class Americans who identify as ... «Spiegel Online, Feb 12»

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