academe

[ ak-uh-deem, ak-uh-deem ]

noun

1. the campus activity, life, and interests of a college or university; the academic world.
2. Sometimes Academe. any place of instruction; a school.
3. a person living in, accustomed to, or preferring the environment of a university.
4. a scholarly or pedantic person, especially a teacher or student.
5. Academe, the public grove in Athens in which Plato taught.

academe

/ ˈækəˌdiːm /

noun

1. any place of learning, such as a college or university
2. the grove of Academe or the groves of Academe
   the academic world

Word History and Origins

Origin of academe¹

First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin Acadēmus, Greek Akádēmos; Academus

Word History and Origins

Origin of academe¹

C16: first used by Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost (1594); see academy

Example Sentences

And now if you're to be congratulated before I go back to the groves of Academe pray bestir yourself.

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At all events, there is sufficient groundwork for any quantity of euphuism about "classic shades," "groves of Academe," et cetera.

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There are the dark groves of Academe, a place of rest in a bare land.

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He was in his mid-twenties, young and slick, his only nod to academe a small goatee.

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It was Billy who spoke, as his eyes first rested upon that eminent pinnacle of Academe.

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