Academic a. : Alt. of Academical

Academic n. : One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

Academic n. : A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

Example:
What is an Academic discipline, and what are the components of an Academic discipline?

Taxonomy
western Academia, gowns, universities, disciplines, hood, research, institution, the Academy, practitioners, education, Ph.D, academic societies, Europe, academic dress, Western Europe, Scholasticism, academic institutions, scholars.

Defination from the web:
academic is a person who works as a researcher (and usually teacher) at a university, college, or similar institution in post-secondary (tertiary) education. ... In the United States, the term academic is approximately synonymous with that of the job title professor although ...