academia
56
6.4
- noun
- /ˌækəˈdiːmiə/
- The conference brought together experts from various fields within academia to discuss recent discoveries.
- work in academia
- the world of academia
- outside academia
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeIt's been quite a change to switch from academia to being self-employed.
- It's been quite a change to switch from academia to being self-employed.
- So he pulls in all these experts from industry, academia, wherever.
- I mean, that's just the way academia works.
- And right now, all the cracks in in the towers of academia are showing.
- And that is part of the academia industry partnerships that that that I value the most.
- So now you have academia feeding feeding newsrooms.
- I have no, I'm not a job in academia is long past.
- I felt not as academia as I wanted it to be.
- We have a major, major issue with over believing academia and under believing reality.
- Or do you think this is a facade that's put on by Hollywood, academia, media?
Examples
-
And this was written together with people from academia and people from industry.
-
It's been quite a change to switch from academia to being self-employed.
-
Still, getting the right thing done in academia is not a small challenge.
-
'It came to nothing, of course, because academia got in the way.
-
Plus, we could use a break from academia.
-
Why are you even in academia?
-
The first task is to establish what academia knew and did not know.
Academic text (2011) -
Both within and outside of academia, the perception of committee work is usually quite negative.
Academic text (2011) -
Yet, mathematics as practiced in academia or industry is rarely done by an individual.
Academic text (1993) -
As conditions in academia improved, foreign-trained Chinese PhDs returned in large numbers to teach.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
5
8.3
People and places that teach and do research at universities
1
4.7
A group of people with advanced university degrees who study and teach at universities
1
6.9
A group of people who work at universities or do research and share ideas
Compounds
How Academic
56
6.4
- Formal
1
4.7
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
1
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Academia comes from the Greek place Akadēmia, named after Akademos, where Plato taught his students in a garden, a kind of 'school'. It is the same root as academy, so academia now means the world of universities and academic study.