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Definition of scholastic adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

scholastic

adjective
 
/skəˈlæstɪk/
 
/skəˈlæstɪk/
 [only before noun] (formal)
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  1. connected with schools and education
    • scholastic achievements
    Topics Educationc2
  2. connected with scholasticism
    3. Word Originlate 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the adjective): via Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē ‘leisure, philosophy, lecture-place’.
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