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intelligentsia; intellectual class
The social stratum composed of educated people engaged in intellectual or cultural work, such as academics, writers, and thinkers. May carry a slightly elitist connotation.
知識階級の人々が議論を交わす。
People from the intellectual class exchange arguments.
明治時代には知識階級の台頭が著しかった。
In the Meiji era, the rise of the intellectual class was notable.
その小説は、知識階級と一般市民の間に生じる溝を描いている。
That novel depicts the gap that arises between the intellectual class and ordinary citizens.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 知識階級の台頭: the rise of the intellectual class
- 知識階級に属する: to belong to the intellectual class
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 知識人: intellectual (individual), person of learning
- インテリ: intellectual (loanword from Russian via French, slightly informal)