academia

Meaning

1. (collective, uncountable) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
2. (uncountable) Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

Synonyms

academicism

academe

academy

scholasticism

pedantism

academic circles

academic world

academism

Translations

die akademische Welt

academia

Akademie

académicien

milieu

Académicien

milieu universitaire

mundo acadêmico

meio acadêmico

ambiente universitário

academia

mundo académico

النّشاط الجامعيّ

círculos académicos

الأوساط الأكاديمية

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌæ.kəˈdiː.mɪ.ə/

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academy and Akademeia; see also academe. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.