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    INTELLIGENTSIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An educated and intellectual eliteplay

    Synonyms:

    clerisy; intelligentsia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("intelligentsia" is a kind of...):

    elite; elite group (a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intelligentsia"):

    culturati (people interested in culture and cultural activities)

    literati (the literary intelligentsia)

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