English-French translations for intelligentsia

• intelligentsia
  On a chassé l'intelligentsia, la classe dirigeante, hors du pays. The intelligentsia and the leaders of its society were driven out of the country.
  .- Ce rapport est emblématique de l’autisme généralisé qui frappe les élites et l’intelligentsia économique et politique européenne. . This report is symbolic of the widespread autism afflicting the economic and political elite and intelligentsia in Europe.
  Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les Allemands et les Russes ont commencé par assassiner l'intelligentsia, les professeurs et le clergé. During World War II the Germans and the Russians murdered there, in the first instance, the intelligentsia, the professors, the clergy.

Definition of intelligentsia

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

Related words

• intelligent
• intelligence
• unintelligent
• counterintelligence
• intelligently
• superintelligence
• intelligential
• intelligencer
• unintelligently