Usually means: Person engaged in critical thinking.
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  1. intellectual: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intellectual: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intellectual: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intellectual: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intellectual: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intellectual, intellectual: Wordnik
  7. intellectual: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intellectual: Wiktionary
  9. intellectual: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intellectual: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intellectual: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intellectual: Dictionary.com
  13. intellectual: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Intellectual: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intellectual: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intellectual: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intellectual: Rhymezone
  18. intellectual: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intellectual: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intellectual: Free Dictionary
  21. intellectual: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intellectual: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. intellectual: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. intellectual: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. intellectual: Legal dictionary

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  1. intellectual: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See intellectuality as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
adjective:  Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
adjective:  Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
adjective:  Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
adjective:  (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
noun:  An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
noun:  (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

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