academia

[ak-uh-dee-mee-uh, -deem-yuh, -dem-ee-uh, -dem-yuh]

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noun

(sometimes initial capital letter) the milieu or interests of a university, college, or academy; academe.

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school, college, academe, academicians

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Origin of academia

1945–50; < New Latin, L. See academy

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Better institutionalize me a second time...” and “Academia is going to have to get used to a bit of immoderate tweeting.
Prof: MIT Hospitalized Me For Ferguson Tweets|Nina Strochlic|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
People of color serve at the highest levels of business, academia and politics.
There's No Such Thing as 'Black America'|Ron Christie|August 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was a bit like academia, where young scholars rarely stick their necks out until they have tenure.
Miley Cyrus Embraces Activism Like a Stripper Pole and It's Fantastic|Sally Kohn|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like the upper bureaucracy, academia has also expanded rapidly in recent decades.
Watch What You Say, The New Liberal Power Elite Won’t Tolerate Dissent|Joel Kotkin|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So when unprepared Christian students begin to study science and lose their faith, it feeds deep distrust of academia.
How Creationism Hurts Christian Colleges—And Their Students|Karl W. Giberson|February 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was a considerable contributor to the edition of the Dictionary of the Academia della Crusca, printed in 1691.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus|William MacGillivray
A wall built round the Academia by Hipparchus was so expensive that it became a proverb applied to all costly undertakings.
Philothea|Lydia Maria Child
This was the situation of the place called Academia, which stood at the distance of a few furlongs from Athens.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)|Jacob Bryant
The Academia, one of the suburbs of Athens, was planted with trees, among others with the olive.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II|Aubrey Stewart & George Long
Hornius says, Academia a Cadmo nomen accepit, non ab Ecademo.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)|Jacob Bryant

British Dictionary definitions for academia

academia

noun

the academic world

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