intelligentsia

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɪntɛlɪˈd͡ʒɛntsɪə/
• (RP, dated) IPA: /ɪntɛlɪˈɡɛntsɪə/

Noun

intelligentsia

1. (politics) The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).

Related terms

• unintelligentsia

Translations

• French: intelligentsia
• German: Intelligenz, Intelligenzija
• Italian: intellighenzia
• Portuguese: intelligentsia
• Russian: интеллиге́нция
• Spanish: intelligentsia, inteliguentsia, inteligencia

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