scholastic
adjective/skəˈlæstɪk/
/skəˈlæstɪk/
[only before noun] (formal)- connected with schools and education
- scholastic achievements
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- connected with scholasticism
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the adjective): via Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, lecture-place’.
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