academia
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken…The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
» The invention of the Internet has revolutionized the world of academia for the better.
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Examples
2 sentencesThe invention of the Internet has revolutionized the world of academia for the better.
Latin was the language of European academia.
Meaning
2 senses(collective, uncountable)The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Akademia, die akademische Welt
(uncountable)Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
- the academic world
Origin
Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of treesBorrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
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Synonyms
1 synonyms- the academic world:academe
Word family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.