intelligentsia
Portuguese, noun/ĩ.tɛ.liˈɡẽt.sjɐ/
intelligentsia is spelled I-N-T-E-L-L-I-G-E-N-T-S-I-A (14 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese, the 123,299th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Intelligentsia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “intelligentsia (the intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “elite intelectual de uma sociedade, especialmente na Rússia e na Polônia do século XIX e, após, na União…”.
What does intelligentsia mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineintelligentsia (the intellectual elite of a society, particularly in Marxist doctrine)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. elite intelectual de uma sociedade, especialmente na Rússia e na Polônia do século XIX e, após, na União Soviética
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of intelligentsia
- intelligentsias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce intelligentsia?
- Brazil /ĩ.tɛ.liˈɡẽt.sjɐ/
- Brazil /ĩ.tɛ.liˈʒẽt.sjɐ/
- Portugal /ĩ.tɛ.liˈɡẽt.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to intelligentsia
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is intelligentsia in Portuguese?
intelligentsia appears about once in every 17 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).