Highbrows - 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

noun

A person who enjoys reading.

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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

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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.

Usage examples:

She brained me with a rolling pin

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.

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

Relating to the intellect.

Usage examples:

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.

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.

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.