intelligentsia

Word family  noun intelligence intelligentsia intelligibility adjective intelligent ≠ unintelligent intelligible ≠ unintelligible adverb intelligently intelligibly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++in·tel·li·gent·si·a /ɪnˌteləˈdʒentsiə/ noun  the intelligentsia SSINTELLIGENTthe people in a society who are most highly educated and who are most interested in new ideas, especially in art, literature, or politics 〔尤指艺术、文学或政界的〕知识分子；知识阶层

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intelligentsia• He developed a strategy skilfully designed to establish intelligentsia leadership over this revolt.• Moua was part of the tiny Hmong intelligentsia, an educated son of a clan elder.• The party represented the most effective political organization of the new class of intelligentsia.• During the 1880s Marxism began to gain currency among the revolutionary intelligentsia.• The demonstrators belong to the middle classes and the intelligentsia, which have suffered most as a result of the government's economic policies.• The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement.• In the absence of a vigorous middle class the intelligentsia lacked any effective levers through which to bring about change.• The subjective role of the intelligentsia describes their self-perception, their hopes, their dreams, their motives.• But the contribution that the intelligentsia made to its development represented their supreme service to the revolution.Origin intelligentsia (1900-2000) Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia “intelligence”

in·tel·li·gent·si·a nounChineseSyllable  

and in society who Corpus highly a most are the people educated

intelligentsia
in‧tel‧li‧gent‧si‧a /ɪnˌteləˈdʒentsiə, ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə/ nounthe intelligentsia the people in a society who are most highly educated and who are most interested in new ideas, especially in art, literature, or politics

in·tel·li·gent·siaBrE /ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə/ 🔊NAmE /ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə/ 🔊 (usually the intelligentsia) noun [singular + singular or plural verb] the people in a country or society who are well educated and are interested in culture, politics, literature, etc. 知识界；知识阶层