"academic question" meaning in English

See academic question in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: academic questions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} academic question (plural academic questions)
  1. A question only of interest to academic scholars; a question of no practical importance.
    Sense id: en-academic_question-en-noun-QuIV5TTH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2011, George Harmon Coxe, chapter 8, in Moment of Violence:",
          "text": "Well, I'm afraid it's an academic question anyway because there won't be any five thousand dollars the way things look.",
          "type": "quote"
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        "A question only of interest to academic scholars; a question of no practical importance."
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      "links": [
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          "scholar",
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  "word": "academic question"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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