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An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.

The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.

Example: intellectual powers, activities, etc.

Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity

Example: an intellectual person

Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect

Example: intellectual employments

Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.

Example: intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy