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An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters. / (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

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Source Word

intellectual

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/

Noun

archaic

Japanese Meaning

知識人（知識や教養に富んだ人、特に学術的な議論を行う人物） / 知性・知能（古語的表現で知覚や理解などの精神的能力）

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The intellectual presented a compelling argument about the role of literature in society.

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その知識人は、文学が社会で果たす役割について説得力のある議論を展開した。

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An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

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.

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