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academia

/ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/

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academia noun: the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.

Noun

academia (uncountable)

  1. (collective) 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.
    • 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...2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2020
  2. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
    • Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

academia meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Indonesian

academia in Tamil

பள்ளி, பல்கலைக்கழகம் முதலிய கல்வித்துறையினர், கல்வித்துறை, மேற்கல்வி, ஆய்வு முதலியவற்றில் ஈடுபடும் அறிவியல், பண்பாட்டுக் குழுவினரின் தொகுதி

academia in Urdu

عِلمی زِندگی

academia in Bengali

বিদ্বৎসমাজ, উচ্চশিক্ষা, গবেষণা ও শিক্ষকতার জগৎ

academia in Indonesian

scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole
civitas academica

Examples of academia in a sentence

  • Scientists, especially in academia, tend to treat science communication, or SciComm for short, as something "apart".
  • The sheltered world of academia suited Clarence, who for the first time was among his intellectual peers.
  • Many of them were well integrated into British academia and society.

All 27 example sentences with academia

Origin of 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.

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Words that rhyme with academia

Questions about academia

What does academia mean?
Academia means the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
What is academia in Tamil?
Academia in Tamil is பள்ளி, பல்கலைக்கழகம் முதலிய கல்வித்துறையினர், கல்வித்துறை. See Academia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is academia?
Academia is a noun.
How do you pronounce academia?
Academia is pronounced /ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/ (UK).

Words near academia in the dictionary

  1. academe
  2. academented
  3. academentia
  4. academes
  5. academese
  6. academia
  7. academial
  8. academian
  9. academians
  10. academic
  11. academic art

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: academia (page history and authors); academia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); academia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); academia (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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