Noun
an educated and intellectual elite
Source: WordNetOne should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. Heinrich Müller
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia. Mikhail Bulgakov
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. Ralph Nader
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Hu Shih
All the left wing intelligentsia are coming to look to me for protection and I will give it wholeheartedly in return for their aid in the rearmament of Britain. Winston Churchill
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Diane Abbott