- intelectual1
- 1 = scholar, intellectual, boffin, highbrow [high-brow].Nota: Nombre.Ex. Under 'American scholar' he found editions published beginning, I believe, in the 1880s.Ex. Reading thus becomes an activity for intellectuals -- for 'clever people' -- an elitist activity to be not just ignored but attacked.Ex. 'Boffins' have been identified as the category of learners who 'delight in unrelated fragments of knowledge for knowledge's sake,' and 'put these fragments into a framework and analyze them'.Ex. People with a grade-school education, most of whose reading choices are in the low-brow category, cannot and do not easily read material written for the high-brow or even the increasingly college-trained middle-brow.----* grupo de intelectuales = intelligentsia.* intelectuales = literati, intelligentsia.* intelectuales digitales = digerati.
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.