| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| intelligentsia |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·tel·li·gent·si·a |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n-t l  -jnt s -, -gnt- |
| NOUN: | The intellectual elite of a society. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia, intelligence, from intelligns, intelligent-, intelligent. See intelligent.
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