intelligentsia

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija) or Polish inteligencja, from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”). Doublet of intelligence.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛlɪˈd͡ʒɛntsɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛləˈd͡ʒɛn(t)si.ə/, /ɪntɛləˈɡɛn(t)si.ə/[1]
• (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA^(key): /ɪntɛlɪˈɡɛntsɪə/[2]

intelligentsia (countable and uncountable, plural intelligentsias)

1. (politics) The intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine.
   • 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:

     It should be noted that there is now no intelligentsia that is not in some sense "Left". Perhaps the last right-wing intellectual was T. E. Lawrence. Since about 1930 everyone describable as an “intellectual” has lived in a state of chronic discontent with the existing order.

• unintelligentsia

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Italian intellighenzia, from Latin intelligentia.

intelligentsia c (singular definite intelligentsiaen, plural indefinite intelligentsiaer)

1. intelligentsia

• intelligens c

Borrowed from Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Italian intellighenzia, from Latin intelligentia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈintelːiɡentsiɑ/, [ˈin̪t̪e̞lːiˌɡe̞nts̠iɑ]
• Rhymes: -entsiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): in‧tel‧li‧gent‧si‧a

intelligentsia

1. intelligentsia

• älymystö (intellectuals as a group)
• (in East Europe): intelligentsija

• IPA^(key): /in.te.li.ʒɛnt.sja/

• Audio

  (file)

intelligentsia f (plural intelligentsias)

1. intelligentsia

• “intelligentsia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

intelligentsia f (plural intelligentsias)

1. intelligentsia (intellectual élite)

• intelligentia

From Russian интеллиге́нция (intelligéncija), from Latin intellegentia (“intelligence”).

intelligentsia c

1. intelligentsia

• intelligentsia in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)