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academia

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

noun

  1. the milieu or interests of a university, college, or academy; academe.


academia

/ ˌækəˈdiːmɪə /

noun

  1. the academic world
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of academia1

First recorded in 1945–50; from New Latin, Latin; academy
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Example Sentences

As much as I’m still skeptical about how Link compares to state-of-the-art neural probes developed in academia, I’m impressed by how much a relatively small leadership team has accomplished in just the past year.

In the spring of 2016, Hong sought to return to academia, but the agency asked him to stay.

The “social cost of carbon” is a concept virtually unknown outside of academia and federal agencies.

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I’m no longer in academia, but my original three questions about brain aging—and its reversal—remain.

I’d like to think it means that these are people who will listen to advisers — whether within government, civil service, academia — but that they also know how to make important decisions and they have a familiarity with history.

Better institutionalize me a second time...” and “Academia is going to have to get used to a bit of immoderate tweeting.

People of color serve at the highest levels of business, academia and politics.

It was a bit like academia, where young scholars rarely stick their necks out until they have tenure.

Like the upper bureaucracy, academia has also expanded rapidly in recent decades.

It degrades dance, opera, even academia and, significantly, the art of journalism.

Between you both, there will be quite an Academia at Kilronan.

Missing your chance at the Hof-theatre, you can rush off to the old Academia to take the same chances.

If the Academia fails you there is still the Kiosk in the Maximilianplatz.

This was the situation of the place called Academia, which stood at the distance of a few furlongs from Athens.

Hornius says, Academia a Cadmo nomen accepit, non ab Ecademo.

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