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インテリ
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Noun
1. intellectual; educated person​Abbreviation, See also 知識人
Noun
2. intelligentsia​Abbreviation, See also インテリゲンチャ
Wikipedia definition
3. Intelligentsia​For the coffee shop company, see Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea. The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex, mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them. Initially the term was applied mostly in the context of Russia and later the Soviet Union, and had a narrower meaning based on a self-definition of a certain category of intellectuals.
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