how to pronounce intelligentsia

/ɪnˌtɛl.ɪˈdʒɛnt.si.ə/

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intelligentsia is pronounced in six syllables

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An example use of intelligentsia in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… from the intelligentsia did not spare …”

meanings of intelligentsia

noun:

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

intelligentsia frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word intelligentsia occurs in english on average 2.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics intelligentsia can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that intelligentsia can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) people, society, and culture;