intelligentsia
pronunciation
How to pronounce intelligentsia in British English:
UK [ɪnˌtelɪˈdʒentsiə]
How to pronounce intelligentsia in American English:
US [inˌtɛləˈdʒɛntsiə, -ˈɡɛnt-]
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- Noun:
- an educated and intellectual elite
Word Origin
- intelligentsia (n.)
- "the intellectual class collectively," 1905, from Russian intelligyentsia, from Latin intelligentia (see intelligence). Perhaps via Italian intelligenzia.
Example
- 1. It is not just the colombo intelligentsia that is appalled .
- 2. A press junket for british journalists has annoyed the dissident intelligentsia of damascus .
- 3. Yet in their self-awareness and sense of mission , zhivago 's children began to resemble the russian intelligentsia of a century before .
- 4. Ekho moskvy was thus not only an institution for the liberal intelligentsia but also a channel of communication for the kremlin .
- 5. The paradox was that the intelligentsia 's triumph-which led to the collapse of the soviet empire-was also the beginning of its end .