Intelligentsia Definition

ĭn-tĕlə-jĕntsē-ə, -gĕnt-
noun
Those persons regarded as, or regarding themselves as, the educated and enlightened class; intellectuals collectively.
Webster's New World
The intellectual elite of a society.
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Origin of Intelligentsia

  • Russian intelligentsiya from Latin intelligentia intelligence from intelligēns intelligent- intelligent intelligent

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Russian интеллигенция (intelligéncija) or Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”).

    From Wiktionary

Intelligentsia Sentence Examples

  • He received kudos of approval from the intelligentsia.

  • That means creating a new technical intelligentsia capable of satisfying the needs of our industry.

  • However, although the Arab stage attracted the Arab intelligentsia, it did not achieve a breakthrough.

  • What attitude should the working class take toward the capitalist class and the bourgeois intelligentsia?

  • Peter Hitchens describes how the liberal intelligentsia has taken over; you are living under New Labor.

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