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Etymology
From the Russian intelligentsiya (earlier: Latin) or Polish inteligencja. From Latin intellegentia "intelligence".

Pronunciation
RP¹ IPA|/ɪntÉ›lɪˈʤɛntsɪə/
RP² dated IPA|/ɪntÉ›lɪˈgÉ›ntsɪə/<ref name="OED-pron">The Oxford English Dictionary (2007).</ref>

Noun
inteligentsia

1. The intellectual élite of a society (especially in pre-revolutionary Russia and nineteenth-century Poland).

Translations
trans-top|Intellectual élite
Finnish: intelligentsija, älymystö, intellektuellit
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Polish: inteligencja f
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