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intelligentsia

The correct spelling is intelligentsia.

How to pronounce intelligentsia

noun

IPA: /ɪntɛlɪˈd͡ʒɛntsɪə/

Say it like: Int-ell-ije-nts-ia

The correct spelling is intelligentsia. The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).

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Definition

noun

  1. 1.The intellectual élite of a society (especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union).

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