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

Whereas concerns in the past largely centered around postdocs’ difficulty getting faculty positions, “now, academe is really worried about the low applicant pool,” she says.

From Science Magazine

Because “The Laughter” is not just any book from such a perspective — it’s a no-holds-barred comic achievement that lambastes the power structures keeping men like Oliver skulking the halls of academe.

From New York Times

It said the “unspeakable violence against students is an assault on the sanctity of education, academe, and fundamental human rights.”

From New York Times

Keegin, a philosophy student at Tulane University, argues that, confronted with “the slow slide of academe into oblivion,” scholars — especially in humanities departments, which are losing undergraduates, prestige, jobs and funding — “desperately grasp for relevance.”

From Washington Post

Haustein suggests, though, that scientists consider strategically presenting metrics from Twitter or other social media to highlight papers that mattered to audiences outside of academe.

From Science Magazine