academia en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌæk.əˈdɛm.i.ə/ (General-American)
- /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mi.ə/ (variant)
- /ˌæk.əˈdi.mjə/ (General-American)
- ăk'ədēʹmēə (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌæk.əˈdi.mi.ə/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌæk.əˈdeɪ.mɪ.ə/ (variant)
- /-ˈdɛm.jə/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der. New Latin acadēmī̆abor. English academia 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 academe, academy, and Akademeia. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.
Meanings
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(collective, uncountable) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020:Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
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(uncountable) Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
Deriveds
light academia · academian · academentia · dark academia
Relateds
academe · Akademeia · academics · Academy · academy · academical · academically · academician · academic
Translations (26)
fi akateeminen maailma (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · fi tiedeyhteisö (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · nb den akademiske verden (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · pt academia (institution of higher education) · cmn 學術 /学术 (institution of higher education) · fi yliopistomaailma (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · it accademia (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · fi akateeminen maailma (institution of higher education) · cmn 學界 /学界 (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · es mundo académico (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · fi yliopistot (institution of higher education) · es ámbito académico (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · cmn 學術界 /学术界 (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · pl akademia (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · de die akademische Welt (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · da akademia (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · ko 학계 (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · ko 학문 (institution of higher education) · pl akademia (institution of higher education) · es academia (institution of higher education) · sv den akademiska världen (institution of higher education) · de Akademia (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · fi yliopisto (institution of higher education) · id civitas academica (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · cmn 學術圈 /学术圈 (scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole) · it università (institution of higher education)