Elite
Elite adjective - Selected as the best.
Intellectual and elite are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Intellectual" instead an adjective "Elite".
Intellectual
Intellectual adjective - Much given to learning and thinking.
Elite and intellectual are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Elite" instead an adjective "Intellectual".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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During the times when literacy was reserved to the upper layers of the society, the brethren formed both a military and intellectual elite.
- Geeky Stu considers himself an intellectual elite in a world of fools.
Source: Marty Stu - Costa Rica hasnt had a coup or a civil war since 1948, nor a dictatorship for that matter, in a region when those were very common, and is often considered Latin Americas oldest (uninterrupted) democracy, yet of course many people among the intellectual elite may question this idyllic image.
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