Academia meaning

ăk'ə-dē'mē-ə, -dā'-
The definition of academia is the world within an educational community.

An example of academia is a college, its students, and its teachers.

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The academic world; academe.
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Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
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Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

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The academic community; academe.
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Origin of academia

Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmia), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. See also academy, academe, Akademeia. Modern sense of "the world of universities and scholarship" recorded from 1956.

Sentence Examples

  • Degrees earned are of paramount significance in academia.

  • It boasts an associate Dean for Enterprise, and considers linking academia with enterprise central to its activity.

  • The prevailing European fashion of literary academies was not long in reaching Portugal, and 1647 saw the foundation of the Academia dos Generosos which included in its ranks the men most illustrious by learning and social position, and in 1663 the Academia dos Singulares came into being; but with all their pedantry, extravagances and bad taste, it must be confessed that these and similar corporations tended to promote the pursuit of good literature.

  • P. Hasdeu, Etymologicum magnum Romaniae (Bucharest, Academia Romana, 1887, &c.); F.

  • Dalametra, Dictionar Macedoromdn (Bucharest, Academia Romana, 1906).

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