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Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.
Louis MacNeice

Meaning of "the intelligentsia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE INTELLIGENTSIA

the hundreds
the hut
the hyperreal
the Ice
the Ice Blacks
the ignition
the Indies
the Industrial Revolution
the inevitable
the inferno
the interim
the Interior
the Internationale
the internet
the Irish
the Islands
the Ivory Coast
the Ivy League
the jack
the Jacobite Rebellion

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE INTELLIGENTSIA

amnesia
Anastasia
Asia
Bahasa Indonesia
bartsia
fantasia
fatsia
French Polynesia
fuchsia
Indonesia
intelligentsia
Malaysia
Micronesia
ossia
Polynesia
prosopagnosia
rickettsia
Russia
Southeast Asia
Tunisia

Synonyms and antonyms of the intelligentsia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the intelligentsia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA

Find out the translation of the intelligentsia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the 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 «the intelligentsia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

知识分子
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la intelectualidad
570 millions of speakers

English

the 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

a intelectualidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বুদ্ধিজীবীগণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´intelligentsia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inteligensia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Intelligenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

インテリ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

지식인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing inteligensia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giới trí thức
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

l´intellighenzia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

inteligencja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

інтелігенція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

intelectualitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η διανόηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die intelligentsia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

intelligentian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

intelligentsiaen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the intelligentsia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE INTELLIGENTSIA»

The term «the intelligentsia» is regularly used and occupies the 71.932 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE INTELLIGENTSIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the intelligentsia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the 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 the intelligentsia

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3 QUOTES WITH «THE INTELLIGENTSIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the intelligentsia.
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Stanley Baldwin
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
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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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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 «THE INTELLIGENTSIA»

Discover the use of the intelligentsia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the intelligentsia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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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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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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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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How and why was the intelligentsia important fpr the West ...
The following essay is supposed to follow the question “How and why was the intelligentsia important for the West German student movement”.
Roman Esser, 2004
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Propaganda and culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the ...
The key role of intellectuals in Mao's China has confounded Western scholars.
Timothy Cheek, 1997
6
The Mythmakers: intellectuals and the intelligentsia in ...
This unique collection brings together various scholars of sociology and political science to explore the status and activities of the intellectuals and the intelligentsia past, present and future.
Raj P. Mohan, 1987
7
The Russian Intelligentsia: From Torment to Silence
Western and Russian authors alike have expressed divergent views concerning the emergence of the intelligentsia as a distinct social group. Some of them trace the appearance of the intelligentsia to Peter the Great and, in fact, conceive of ...
Vladimir C. Nahirny
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Intelligentsia and Revolution
Ivanov-Razumnik's definition — "the intelligentsia is an esthetically anti-Philistine [anti- meshchanskaia], sociologically non-estate and non-class, historically continuous [preemstvennaia] group, characterized by the creation of new forms and ...
Jane Burbank, 1986
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The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the ...
Lesley Chamberlain creates a rich portrait of this chilling historical moment, evoked with immediacy through the journals, letters, and memoirs of the exiles.
Lesley Chamberlain, 2006
10
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia: Old Intellectuals in ...
One cannot become the intelligentsia: intelligentsia qualities cannot be learned; they are transmitted through the generations. Intelligentsia is not simply educated – it is cultured. Intelligentsia takes responsibility for what is going on in society ...
Inna Kochetkova, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE INTELLIGENTSIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the intelligentsia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Watch the Intelligentsia Cup's Lake Bluff Criterium live on Cyclingnews
USA Cycling's National Criterium Calendar (NCC) resumes at the Intelligentsia Cup's Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium on Saturday, July 25, in Illinois ... «Cyclingnews.com, Jul 15»
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A Coffee Odyssey
(The only seating around is a single sofa located back in the hotel lobby.) Cool and dark, the Intelligentsia space felt more like a steakhouse than a coffee shop. «New Yorker, Jun 13»

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