1.  academician(n = noun.person) - someone elected to honorary membership in an academy;
is a kind of honoree
is a member of academy, honorary society
Derived forms noun academicianship₁, noun academy₄, noun academy₂

2.  academician(n = noun.person) schoolman - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation;
is a kind of bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
Derived forms noun academy₄, noun academy₃, noun academy₁, noun academy₂

3.  academician(n = noun.person) academic, faculty member - an educator who works at a college or university;
is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
has particulars: prof, professor
Derived forms noun academy₄, noun academy₃, noun academy₁, noun academy₂

1.  A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts. [1913 Webster]

2.  A collegian. Chesterfield. [1913 Webster]

academician, n. a member of an Academy, esp. of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Acad{eacute}mie fran{ccedil}aise, or the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Etymology:
F acad{eacute}micien (as ACADEMIC)

N  scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.