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As a letter w

is the twenty-third letter of the.

As a symbol w

is (label) symbol for tungsten.

As an adjective intellectual is

belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

As a noun intellectual is

an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

w

Translingual

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Alternative forms

* vv (obsolete)

Letter

  • The twenty-third letter of the .
  • The first letter of (l) allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.
  • Symbol

    (Voiced labio-velar approximant) (head)
  • voiced labial-velar approximant
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * Turned: * * {{Letter , page=W , NATO=Whiskey , Morse=·–– , Character=W , Braille=? }} Image:Latin W.png, Capital and lowercase versions of W , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter W.png, Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur ----

    intellectual

    Alternative forms

    * intellectuall (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
  • Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
  • Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
  • Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
  • (archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
  • * 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
  • I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...

    Antonyms

    * non-intellectual

    Derived terms

    * anti-intellectual * intellectual capital * intellectual disability * intellectual honesty * intellectuality * intellectual journey * intellectual property * intellectual rights * organic intellectual

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
  • (archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
  • Derived terms

    * public intellectual

    See also

    * intelligentsia * egghead * nerd * geek * highbrow