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academia

academia

58 6.4
People and places that do research and teach at universities
  • noun
  • /ˌækəˈdiːmiə/
translation icon : academia
  • The conference brought together experts from various fields within academia to discuss recent discoveries.
  • work in academia
  • the world of academia
  • outside academia

It's been quite a change to switch from academia to being self-employed.

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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

academe
vsacademia
5 8.3

People and places that teach and do research at universities

has identical meaning but is a different form
community of scholars
vsacademia
  • Formal
1 4.7

A group of people with advanced university degrees who study and teach at universities

is broader including institutions and the wider study and research world
circle of academia
vsacademia
6.9

A group of people who work at universities or do research and share ideas

is broader covering the whole university study and research world

Compounds

A group of people who work at universities or do research and share ideas

How Academic

academia
58 6.4
community of scholars
  • Formal
1 4.7
university
870 1.0
college
1.0
school
1.0

Surface Forms

academia singular
academias plural

Morphology

academia = academy (semi-transparent) = academy + ia

Formally derived from 'academy' with the suffix '-ia' to denote a collective or domain; the specific sense 'the world of academic study' is predictable but not identical to a single 'academy', so learners may not infer the full range of meaning.

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.