academia
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as…
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
- Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Continuous study at higher education institutions
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
- Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
The neighborhood
- neighboracademe
- neighboracademic
- neighboracademical
- neighboracademically
- neighboracademician
- neighboracademics
- neighborAcademy
- neighborAkademeia
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for academia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA