English-Italian translations for intelligentsia

• intellighenzia
  L'intellighenzia, la classe dirigente è stata scacciata dal paese. The intelligentsia and the leaders of its society were driven out of the country.
  Durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, i tedeschi e i russi hanno assassinato in Polonia, prima di tutto, l'intellighenzia, i professori, il clero. During World War II the Germans and the Russians murdered there, in the first instance, the intelligentsia, the professors, the clergy.
  A prescindere dal governo statunitense, dobbiamo tentare di persuadere l' intellighenzia americana dei vantaggi di un calo nelle emissioni inquinanti. We must also try, by bypassing the US administration, to convince the American intelligentsia of the benefits, especially the obvious ecological benefits, of reducing pollution.

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