Highbrow - English meaning

adjective

Relating to education and scholarship.

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Academic achievement

noun

A teacher or scholar in a university or other institute of higher education.

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The eu offers grants to academics for research on approved projects

adjective

Relating to schools, esp. colleges and universities, or connected with studying and thinking and not with useful skills

Usage examples:

Which diamond ring you like more is purely academic, because i can’t afford either one.

noun

An intellectual or literary woman.

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A victorian bluestocking

noun

A person engaged in scientific or technical research.

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The boffins at the telecommunications research establishment

noun

A scientist who is considered to know a lot about science and not to be interested in other things

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A technical/computer boffin

adjective

(of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying.

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A bookish, untidy boy

adjective

Enjoying books more than other things

Usage examples:

He’s pleasant but a shy, bookish type.

noun

A person who enjoys reading.

Usage examples:

As a serious bookworm, i missed browsing at the library

noun

Infml someone who likes to read books

noun

Variant spelling of brahman (sense 1).

noun

A member of the highest hindu caste, originally that of the priesthood.

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A brahman family

noun

A member of a group of people who hold a high social position and who are usually well educated, especially people from the northeastern states of the us

Usage examples:

In florida, the formal boston brahmin looks as out of place as a new england pine in the everglades.

noun

An organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.

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A brain tumour

verb

Hit (someone) hard on the head with an object.

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She brained me with a rolling pin

adjective

Having or showing intelligence.

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A brainy discussion

adjective

Refined and well educated.

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He was a remarkably cultivated and educated man

verb

Prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.

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The peasants who cultivated the land became its owners

adjective

Well educated

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A cultivated accent

adjective

Characterized by refined taste and manners and good education.

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A cultured and intelligent man

verb

Maintain (tissue cells, bacteria, etc.) in conditions suitable for growth.

Usage examples:

Several investigators have attempted to culture biliary cells

noun

A university teacher, especially a senior member of a college at oxford or cambridge.

Usage examples:

His brother was a don at new college

verb

Put on (an item of clothing).

Usage examples:

In the dressing room the players donned their football shirts

proper noun

A river in russia which rises near tula, south-east of moscow, and flows for a distance of 1,958 km (1,224 miles) to the sea of azov.

adjective

Resembling a college don, particularly because of having a pedantic, scholarly manner.

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He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously …

adjective

Intelligent, often in a way that is too serious

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He was a thin, donnish-looking man in a tweed jacket and sandals.

adjective

Having been educated.

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A harvard-educated lawyer

verb

Give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone), typically at a school or university.

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She was educated at a boarding school

adjective

Having learned a lot at school or university and having a good level of knowledge

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She was probably the most highly educated prime minister of this century.

noun

A highly academic or studious person; an intellectual.

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The tv egghead who brought science to the masses

noun

A person, especially a man, who is very clever and interested only in studying and other mental activities

adjective

Having or showing great knowledge or learning.

Usage examples:

Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion

adjective

Having or containing a lot of knowledge that is known by very few people

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He's the author of an erudite book on scottish history.

adjective

Relating to the intellect.

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Children need intellectual stimulation

noun

A person possessing a highly developed intellect.

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A prominent political thinker and intellectual

adjective

Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas at a high level, or involving ideas

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He was among the political and intellectual leaders of his time.

adjective

(of a person) having acquired much knowledge through study.

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A learned, generous, and notoriously absent-minded man

verb

Gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

Usage examples:

They'd started learning french

adjective

Having or showing much knowledge

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A learned scholar

verb

Not prevent or forbid; allow.

Usage examples:

My boss let me leave early

noun

A period during which a room or property is rented.

Usage examples:

I've taken a month's let on the flat

verb

Hinder.

Usage examples:

Pray you let us not; we fain would greet our mother

noun

A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.

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The royal palace (some pedants would say the ex-royal palace)

noun

A person who is too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important

noun

A specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities.

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A hebrew scholar

noun

A person with great knowledge, usually of a particular subject

noun

A person who studies a subject in great detail, especially at a university

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A classics/history scholar, dr miles was a distinguished scholar of russian history.

adjective

Involving or relating to serious academic study.

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Scholarly journals

adjective

Demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application.

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Marriage is a serious matter

adjective

Not joking; not intended to amuse

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You can never tell when he’s serious., that’s an interesting job offer – i’d give it serious consid…

adjective

Having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

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A chic, sophisticated woman

verb

Make (someone or something) more sophisticated.

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Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice

adjective

Having an understanding of the world and its ways, so that you are not easily fooled, and having an understanding of people and ideas without making them seem simple

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Sophisticated readers understood the book’s hidden meaning., sophisticated computer systems

adjective

Spending a lot of time studying or reading.

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He was quiet and studious

adjective

Liking to study

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She was a studious child who spent hours reading.

noun

A person who thinks deeply and seriously.

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She was not a thinker, but she had common sense

noun

Someone who considers important subjects or produces new ideas

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He’s a creative thinker and a good administrator.