All intelligentsia synonyms

noun intelligentsia

• background — Your background is the kind of family you come from and the kind of education you have had. It can also refer to such things as your social and racial origins, your financial status, or the type of work experience that you have.
• league — a unit of distance, varying at different periods and in different countries, in English-speaking countries usually estimated roughly at 3 miles (4.8 kilometers).
• family — the children of one person or one couple collectively: We want a large family.
• degree — You use degree to indicate the extent to which something happens or is the case, or the amount which something is felt.
• grade — a degree or step in a scale, as of rank, advancement, quality, value, or intensity: the best grade of paper.
• company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
• club — A club is an organization of people interested in a particular activity or subject who usually meet on a regular basis.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• circle — A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
• pundit — a learned person, expert, or authority.
• doctor — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
• origin — something from which anything arises or is derived; source; fountainhead: to follow a stream to its origin.
• hierarchy — any system of persons or things ranked one above another.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• quality — an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
• moiety — a half.
• standing — rank or status, especially with respect to social, economic, or personal position, reputation, etc.: He had little standing in the community.
• pedigree — an ancestral line; line of descent; lineage; ancestry.
• title — a clause in the 1972 Education Act stating that no one shall because of sex be denied the benefits of any educational program of activity that receives direct federal aid.
• source — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
• breed — A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
• pigeonhole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
• state — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
• station — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
• stratum — a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another: a stratum of ancient foundations.
• stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
• status — the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.
• lineage — the number of printed lines, especially agate lines covered by a magazine article, newspaper advertisement, etc.
• caliber — the size of a bullet or shell as measured by its diameter
• coterie — A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a common interest, and who do not want other people to join them.
• ancestry — Your ancestry is the fact that you are descended from certain people.
• birth — When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
• clique — If you describe a group of people as a clique, you mean that they spend a lot of time together and seem unfriendly towards people who are not in the group.
• tier — a person or thing that ties.
• prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
• clan — A clan is a group which consists of families that are related to each other.
• derivation — The derivation of something, especially a word, is its origin or source.
• genealogy — a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
• sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
• connection — A connection is a relationship between two things, people, or groups.
• sect — a body of persons adhering to a particular religious faith; a religious denomination.
• nobility — the noble class or the body of nobles in a country.
• caste — A caste is one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society.
• bourgeoisie — In Marxist theory, the bourgeoisie are the middle-class people who own most of the wealth in a capitalist system.
• scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
• brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.